Chronic Conditions - Opioid Use Disorder Hospitalization (Medicare Population)

This indicator reports the unsmoothed, age-adjusted rate of overarching opioid use disorder indicator hospitalization for the Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) population for the year 2023. Data were sourced from the CMS Mapping Medicare Disparities (MMD) tool.

Note:

Data are suppressed when the total population is fewer than 11.
Data are also suppressed when the number of annual wellness visits is fewer than 3 (rate is shown as zero in these cases).

Source

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Mapping Medicare Disparities Tool, 2023.

Source Description

The Mapping Medicare Disparities (MMD)Tool is an interactive web-based map identifying and understanding geographic areas of disparities in chronic diseases between subgroups of Medicare beneficiaries. The MMD Tool identifies disparities between sub-populations (e.g., racial and ethnic groups) in health outcomes, utilization, and spending. The MMD Tool also allows quality measure comparisons between different hospitals at the national, state/territory, or county level. The MMD Tool offers data on hospitalization, readmission, mortality, emergency department visit rates of various chronic conditions such as Alzheimer, dementia, asthma, breast, lung and prostate cancer, kidney disease, depression and more. For more information about the tool and data, please see the Mapping Medicare Disparities Technical Documentation.

Methodology

The rate data for this indicator are obtained from the Mapping Medicare Disparities data tool (2023) and the universe population data shown in the table are from Medicare Geographic Variation – by National, State & County (2021). The analysis population are all Medicare FFS beneficiaries. Indicator statistics or multi-county/state areas are summarized using
the following formula:

Rate = [Medicare FFS beneficiaries Receiving Certain Services or in Certain Conditions] / [Medicare FFS beneficiaries] * 100*
*Using a multiplier of 1,000 when the metric is in the category of Hospitalization or Emergency Department Visit Rate

For more information on the rate data reported in the Mapping Medicare Disparities tool, please see the complete Technical Documentation.

For information on the denominator data from the Geographic Variation dataset, please see the complete Data Dictionary or Methodology.

Data Breakouts Available

Overarching Opioid Use Disorder Indicator Hospitalization by Dual Eligibility Status
Overarching Opioid Use Disorder Indicator Hospitalization by Race / Ethnicity
Overarching Opioid Use Disorder Indicator Hospitalization by Gender

Chronic Conditions – Opioid Use Disorder Hospitalization (Medicare Population)

Source

Source Description

Methodology

Data Breakouts Available

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