Findings from Weill Cornell Medicine Broaden Understanding of Information Technology (Diagnostic Coding of Elder Mistreatment: Results From a National Database of Medicare Advantage and Private Insurance Patients, 2011-2017)

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2021 JUN 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Current study results on Information Technology have been published. According to news reporting originating in New York City, New York, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Health care providers may play an important role in detection of elder mistreatment, which is common but underrecognized. We used the Health Care Cost Institute insurance claims database to describe elder mistreatment diagnosis among Medicare Advantage (MA) and private insurance patients in the United States from 2011 to 2017.”

Financial supporters for this research include Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA), Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging for Tony Rosen from the National Institute on Aging.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Weill Cornell Medicine, “We used International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding to identify cases, examining the impact of transition from ICD-9 (Ninth Revision) to ICD-10 (Tenth Revision), which occurred in October 2015 and added 14 new codes for ‘suspected’ mistreatment. 8,127 patients (0.051% of all aged >= 65), including 6,304 with MA (0.058%) and 1,823 with private insurance (0.026%) received elder mistreatment diagnosis. Transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 was associated with a small increase in diagnosis rate, with ‘suspected’ codes used in 45.3% of ICD-10 versus 9.7% of ICD-9 cases. Overall rates remained low.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Rates, settings, and types of diagnosis differed between MA and private insurance patients.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Diagnostic Coding of Elder Mistreatment: Results From a National Database of Medicare Advantage and Private Insurance Patients, 2011-2017. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 2021. Journal of Applied Gerontology can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; Journal of Applied Gerontology - jag.sagepub.com)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Tony Rosen, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States. Additional authors for this research include Alyssa Elman, Yiye Zhang, Philip J. Jeng, Veronica M. LoFaso, Mark S. Lachs, Yuhua Bao, Katherine Wen, Lena K. Makaroun and Sunday Clark.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648211018530. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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