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Costs of pediatric liver transplantation among commercially insured and Medicaid-insured patients with cholestasis in the US.

Abstract
Children with rare cholestatic liver diseases, such as Alagille syndrome, progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis, and biliary atresia typically require liver transplantation (LT). The objective of this analysis was to assess the economic burden of LT on these patients. Health care resource utilization and costs associated with pediatric LT were retrospectively assessed using insurance claims data from the US IBM MarketScan Commercial and Medicaid databases collected between October 2015 and December 2019. Inclusion criteria were as follows: ≥1 procedure code for LT, <18 years old at transplant, and ≥6 months of insurance eligibility at baseline. A cholestatic liver disease population who received LT was selected in the absence of specific diagnosis codes by excluding other severe liver conditions (ie, acute liver failure, malignancy) and by excluding severely decompensated individuals requiring ICU admission before LT. Annualized rates were reported. Over a mean study duration of 1.8 years, 53 commercially insured and 100 Medicaid-insured children received LT, with mean (SD) ages at baseline of 6.9 (6.0) and 5.7 (5.4) years, respectively. During this period, commercially insured and Medicaid-insured patients had annualized means of 65.3 and 52.8 medical visits, respectively. Most were outpatient visits, although the burden of inpatient visits was also high, with mean inpatient stays (inclusive of LT stay) of 37.2 and 31.6 days per year, respectively. Commercially insured and Medicaid-insured patients averaged US$512,124 and $211,863 in medical costs and $26,998 and $15,704 in pharmacy costs, respectively. These costs remained substantial throughout the first year after transplant. Overall, pediatric LT resulted in substantial health care resource utilization and cost burden in both commercially- and Medicaid-insured patients. Novel targeted medications that negate the need for pediatric LT could decrease the associated morbidity and costs.
AuthorsTamir Miloh, Andrea Goldstein, Robin Howard, Douglas B Mogul, Jessica R Marden, Annika Anderson, Katherine Gaburo, Noam Kirson, Philip Rosenthal
JournalLiver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society (Liver Transpl) Vol. 29 Issue 7 Pg. 735-744 (07 01 2023) ISSN: 1527-6473 [Electronic] United States
PMID36747344 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
CopyrightCopyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
Topics
  • United States (epidemiology)
  • Humans
  • Child
  • Adolescent
  • Medicaid
  • Insurance, Health
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Health Care Costs
  • Liver Transplantation
  • Cholestasis (etiology, surgery)

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