Table 2.
Incidence rate of otitis media (OM) episodes with and without tympanostomy tube placement (TTP) and regardless of hearing loss per 100,000 person-years (MarketScan, 2016–2017, Commercial/Medicare (a) and Medicaid (b)).
| OM episodes with TTP |
OM episodes without TTP |
Overall incidence | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age class (years) | Total | Outpatient | Inpatient | Total | Outpatient | Inpatient | |
| a) | |||||||
| Commercial/Medicare | |||||||
| 0-<1 | 4278.0 | 4273.1 | 4.9 | 62,004.6 | 61,989.8 | 14.8 | 66,282.6 |
| 1-<2 | 6089.9 | 6080.7 | 9.2 | 88,499.1 | 88,487.1 | 12.0 | 94,589.0 |
| 2-<3 | 3010.7 | 3009.2 | 1.5 | 62,300.5 | 62,296.8 | 3.7 | 65,311.2 |
| 3-<4 | 1876.7 | 1874.6 | 2.1 | 48,980.6 | 48,976.4 | 4.2 | 50,857.3 |
| 4-<5 | 1379.8 | 1378.2 | 1.7 | 40,692.0 | 40,688.7 | 3.3 | 42,071.8 |
| All (0-<5) | 3233.2 | 3229.5 | 3.7 | 59,492.7 | 59,485.2 | 7.5 | 62,725.9 |
| b) | |||||||
| Medicaid | |||||||
| 0-<1 | 2209.7 | 2205.8 | 3.9 | 62,193.9 | 62,169.1 | 24.9 | 64,403.7 |
| 1-<2 | 4611.0 | 4602.7 | 8.3 | 83,553.9 | 83,535.0 | 18.8 | 88,164.8 |
| 2-<3 | 2467.4 | 2464.6 | 2.9 | 51,736.7 | 51,726.9 | 9.7 | 54,204.1 |
| 3-<4 | 1592.6 | 1590.8 | 1.8 | 37,699.5 | 37,694.2 | 5.3 | 39,292.1 |
| 4-<5 | 1274.0 | 1271.7 | 2.3 | 32,044.4 | 32,040.5 | 3.9 | 33,318.4 |
| All (0-<5) | 2404.5 | 2400.7 | 3.8 | 53,469.7 | 53,456.8 | 12.9 | 55,874.2 |
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