New Managed Care Study Findings Recently Were Reported by Researchers at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Rates of fall injuries across three claims databases, 2019): Managed Care

2026 MAY 27 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at CDC & FDA Daily -- Investigators publish new report on Managed Care. According to news reporting from Atlanta, Georgia, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “In 2021, among all age groups, falls ranked as the third leading cause of unintentional injury death in the USA. Unlike fatal data, which rely on death certificates as the gold standard, there is not a gold standard for non-fatal data.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Non-fatal falls data are often based on insurance claims or administrative billing data. The purpose of our study is to compare three claims databases to estimate rates of unintentional fall-related hospitalisations in 2019, the most recent year of available data across the three sources. Three databases were used to produce incidence rates of fall-related hospitalisations for the year 2019: (1) Merative MarketScan research databases, (2) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) data and (3) Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) National Inpatient Sample. Inpatient falls were identified using International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification codes. Incidence rates per 100 000 people were then produced across all three datasets by payer type. Unadjusted incidence rate ratios were estimated with corresponding 95% CIs. There were wide disparities among fall rates between the three datasets by payer type. HCUP had the highest rate of falls among Medicare (1087.6 per 100 000) and commercial enrollees (74.7 per 100 000), while CMS had the highest rates of falls among Medicaid enrollees (148.0 per 100 000). This study shows wide variation in fall hospitalisation rates based on the claims data used to estimate rates.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “This study suggests that database selection is an important consideration when determining incidence of non-fatal falls.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Rates of fall injuries across three claims databases, 2019. Injury Prevention, 2026;32(3). Injury Prevention can be contacted at: Bmj Publishing Group, British Med Assoc House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JR, England. (BMJ Publishing Group - http://group.bmj.com/; Injury Prevention - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Gabrielle F. Miller, Division of Injury Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Additional authors for this research include Christopher Dunphy, Yara K. Haddad, Jufu Chen, Alen Alic, Karen Thomas and Amy F. Wolkin.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2024-045346. 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.

Publisher contact information for the journal Injury Prevention is: Bmj Publishing Group, British Med Assoc House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JR, England.

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