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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2021 Oct 1;59(10):881–887. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001602

TABLE 1.

Baseline demographic and health care utilization characteristics for adults with diabetes enrolled in New York State Health Homes, with and without substance use disorder

Variable Substance use disorder
(N=7,733)
No substance use disorder
(N=12,066)
P-valuea
Gender (%)
 Male 49.8% 33.3% <0.001
Race/ethnicity (%)
 White, non-Hispanic 32.3% 31.5% 0.234
 Black, non-Hispanic 41.1% 38.0% <0.001
 Hispanic 13.4% 12.2% 0.013
Residence (%)
 NYC 60.0% 66.6% <0.001
Comorbidities (%)
 Asthma 37.1% 31.1% <0.001
Coronary Artery Disease 58.5% 52.0% <0.001
 Bipolar 18.7% 6.3% <0.001
 Schizophrenia 19.7% 8.5% <0.001
 HIV 37.2% 33.6% <0.001
Age, mean (SD) 50.0 (9.9) 52.0 (10.5) <0.001
Service utilization, mean (SD)b
 ED visits 3.5 (7.5) 1.7 (3.5) <0.001
 Hospital visits 1.5 (3.3) 0.5 (1.5) <0.001
 Outpatient visitsc 38.4 (59.7) 19.3 (17.2) <0.001
 SUD outpatient visits 3.7 (15.3) 0.0 (0.0) <0.001
 Methadone visits 25.3 (71.5) 0.0 (0.0) <0.001
 Diabetes outpatient visits 3.8 (12.6) 3.8 (6.4) 0.731
Service utilization, any (%)b
 ED visits 71.0% 55.8% <0.001
 Hospital visits 47.0% 26.8% <0.001
 Outpatient visitsc 97.7% 98.2% 0.011
 SUD outpatient visits 25.2% 0.0% <0.001
 Methadone visits 14.0% 0.0% <0.001
 Diabetes outpatient visits 55.4% 64.5% <0.001
Diabetes care (%)b
 Eye exam 34.4% 42.3% <0.001
 HbA1c test 72.9% 80.3% <0.001
 Medical attention for nephropathy 78.8% 77.2% 0.007
 All 25.2% 32.7% <0.001
Medicaid spending, USDb
 Mean (SD) 50,122.0 (56,514.0) 35,333.6 (40,825.8) <0.001
 Median 33,084.1 22,407.6
a

For categorical variables: Pearson chi-square test with 1 degree of freedom; for continuous variables: independent two-sample t-test

b

In the past 12 months

c

Any outpatient visit, inclusive of SUD, methadone, and diabetes-related outpatient visits but exclusive of ED visits

HH=Health Homes; NYC=New York City; SUD=substance use disorder; HIV=human immunodeficiency virus; ED=emergency department