Table 3.
Incidence rate of otitis media (OM) episodes with and without hearing loss, and with or without tympanostomy tube placement (TTP) per 100,000 person-years (Marketscan, 2016–June 2018, Commercial/Medicare (a) and Medicaid (b)).
| OM episodes with hearing loss |
OM episodes without hearing loss |
Overall incidence | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age class (years) | Total | Without TTP | With TTP | Total | Without TTP | With TTP | |
| a) | |||||||
| Commercial/Medicare | |||||||
| 0-<1 | 1514.4 | 709.0 | 805.3 | 64,768.2 | 61,295.6 | 3472.7 | 66,282.6 |
| 1-<2 | 2110.1 | 1066.1 | 1044.0 | 92,478.9 | 87,433.0 | 5045.9 | 94,589.0 |
| 2-<3 | 1340.5 | 845.4 | 495.1 | 63,970.8 | 61,455.1 | 2515.6 | 65,311.2 |
| 3-<4 | 1261.0 | 868.9 | 392.1 | 49,596.3 | 48,111.7 | 1484.6 | 50,857.3 |
| 4-<5 | 1205.7 | 886.1 | 319.7 | 40,866.1 | 39,805.9 | 1060.2 | 42,071.8 |
| All (0-<5) | 1468.2 | 870.7 | 597.5 | 61,257.7 | 58,622.0 | 2635.7 | 62,725.9 |
| b) | |||||||
| Medicaid | |||||||
| 0-<1 | 951.8 | 491.9 | 459.9 | 63,451.9 | 61,702.0 | 1749.9 | 64,403.7 |
| 1-<2 | 1655.9 | 863.5 | 792.4 | 86,508.9 | 82,690.4 | 3818.6 | 88,164.8 |
| 2-<3 | 1121.1 | 694.4 | 426.6 | 53,083.0 | 51,042.2 | 2040.8 | 54,204.1 |
| 3-<4 | 931.4 | 614.8 | 316.6 | 38,360.7 | 37,084.7 | 1276.0 | 39,292.1 |
| 4-<5 | 935.6 | 624.5 | 311.1 | 32,382.8 | 31,419.9 | 962.9 | 33,318.4 |
| All (0-<5) | 1109.0 | 650.4 | 458.6 | 54,765.2 | 52,819.3 | 1945.9 | 55,874.2 |
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