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Primary care visits and ambulatory care sensitive diabetes hospitalizations among adult Alabama Medicaid beneficiaries.
This retrospective cohort study described patterns of care use for Alabama Medicaid adult beneficiaries with diabetes and the association of primary care utilization and ambulatory care sensitive (ACS) diabetes hospitalizations. Alabama Medicaid claims data from January 2010 to April 2018 for 52, 549 covered adults aged 19-64 with diabetes was analyzed. Individuals were categorized by demographics, comorbidities, and health care use. Characteristics of the cohort with and without ACS hospitalization was reported. One third of the cohort had at least one ACS diabetes hospitalization over the observed periods. Hospital users tended to have multiple ACS hospitalizations as well as more comorbidities and pharmaceutical and other types of care use than those with no ACS hospitalizations. Having a primary care visit in one year was significantly associated with a reduced likelihood of ACS hospitalization in the following year.
AHRQ-funded; HS023009.
Citation: Bronstein JM, Huang L, Shelley JP .
Primary care visits and ambulatory care sensitive diabetes hospitalizations among adult Alabama Medicaid beneficiaries.
Prim Care Diabetes 2022 Feb;16(1):116-21. doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2021.10.005..
Keywords: Diabetes, Hospitalization, Medicaid, Primary Care