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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Preventive Health Care Among North Carolina Children Enrolled in Medicaid
Abstract Background Children enrolled in private insurance had reduced preventive health care during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. However, the impact of the pandemic on children enrolled in Medicaid has been minimally described. Methods We used an administrative claims database...
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Published in: | Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 2023-12, Vol.12 (Supplement_2), p.S14-S19 |
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Background
Children enrolled in private insurance had reduced preventive health care during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. However, the impact of the pandemic on children enrolled in Medicaid has been minimally described.
Methods
We used an administrative claims database from North Carolina Medicaid to evaluate the rates of well-child visits and immunization administration for children ≤14 months of age, and used a quasi-Poisson regression model to estimate the rate ratio (RR) of each outcome during the pandemic period (3/15/2020 through 3/15/2021) compared with the pre-pandemic period (3/15/2019 through 3/14/2020).
Results
We included 83 442 children during the pre-pandemic period and 96 634 children during the pandemic period. During the pre-pandemic period, 405 295 well-child visits and 715 100 immunization administrations were billed; during the pandemic period, 287 285 well-child visits and 457 144 immunization administrations were billed. The rates of well-child visits (RR 0.64; 95% CI, 0.64–0.64) and vaccine administration (RR 0.55; 95% CI, 0.55–0.55) were lower during the pandemic compared with the pre-pandemic period.
Conclusions
The rates of well-child visits and immunization administrations among North Carolina children enrolled in public insurance substantially decreased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this large retrospective cohort study of North Carolina children ≤14 months of age enrolled in Medicaid, we observed a substantial decline in the rates of well-child visits and immunization administration during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic period. |
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ISSN: | 2048-7207 2048-7207 |
DOI: | 10.1093/jpids/piad061 |