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. 2006 Spring;27(3):37-47.

Resource utilization and costs of age-related macular degeneration

Michael T Halpern  1 , Jordana K Schmier, David Covert, Krithika Venkataraman
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Resource utilization and costs of age-related macular degeneration

Michael T Halpern et al. Health Care Financ Rev. 2006 Spring.

Abstract

Data were analyzed from the 1999-2001 Medicare Beneficiary Encrypted Files for patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an ophthalmic condition characterized by central vision loss. Classifying AMD subtype by International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modifications (ICD-9-CM) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2003) code, resource utilization rates increased with disease progression. Individuals with more severe disease (wet only or wet and dry AMD) had greater costs than did those with less severe disease (drusen only or dry only). Costs among patients with wet disease increased yearly at rates exceeding inflation, possibly due in part to increased rates of treatment with photodynamic therapy among these individuals and the aging of the population.

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