TABLE 1.
Demographic characteristics of individuals with and without eating disorder diagnoses in the 2016 20% sample of fee-for-service Medicare claims and Medicare Advantage encounter data
| By eating disorder diagnosis |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No ED N = 11,944,313 |
Any ED N = 17,974 |
AN N = 3,223 |
BN N = 1,650 |
BED N = 793 |
OSFED N = 7,510 |
OUSFED N = 6,959 |
|
| Enrolled in Medicare Advantage (%) | 32.9% | 31.1%** | 30.2% | 30.4% | 30.8% | 29.6% | 31.7% |
| Female (%) | 54.3% | 73.8%** | 79.8% | 86.6% | 81.1% | 71.0% | 73.7% |
| Age (%) | |||||||
| <40 years | 2.2% | 9.6%** | 11.4% | 22.9% | 12.9% | 7.3% | 11.4% |
| 40–54 years | 5.2% | 17.3%** | 17.4% | 33.7% | 26.2% | 14.4% | 19.2% |
| 55–64 years | 8.2% | 14.7%** | 13.9% | 17.3% | 21.8% | 14.1% | 15.8% |
| 65–74 years | 48.3% | 26.9%** | 21.9% | 19.0% | 32.0% | 27.8% | 28.3% |
| 75+ years | 36.2% | 31.6%** | 35.4% | 7.1% | 7.1% | 36.5% | 25.4% |
| Dual eligible (%) | 19.6% | 48.0%** | 50.4% | 58.4% | 44.5% | 46.3% | 48.7% |
| Race (%) | |||||||
| White | 74.6% | 73.9%* | 77.2% | 80.7% | 82.9% | 72.1% | 74.6% |
| Black | 10.4% | 13.1%** | 8.9% | 7.8% | 7.9% | 15.0% | 12.9% |
| Hispanic | 9.0% | 8.7% | 8.9% | 6.8% | 5.7% | 8.8% | 8.2% |
| Other/unknown | 5.9% | 4.3%** | 5.0% | 4.7% | 3.5% | 4.2% | 4.3% |
Note: This table reports the percent of individuals for each column that meet the row demographic or clinical characteristic. For example, 32.9% of individuals without an eating disorder diagnosis were enrolled in Medicare Advantage.
p ≤ .05
p ≤ .01 statistically significant difference within row for individuals with any eating disorder diagnosis compared to individuals without. We used Pearson χ2 tests to compare proportions.
Abbreviations: AN, anorexia nervosa; BN, bulimia nervosa; BED, binge-eating disorder; OSFED, other specified feeding or eating disorder; OUSFED, other unspecified feeding or eating disorder.