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Area of Science:

  • Health Services Research
  • Biostatistics
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Identifying patient mortality from health insurance claims data in the United States is challenging for retrospective research.
  • Disenrollment from health plans can occur due to death or other reasons, complicating mortality ascertainment.
  • Accurate identification of death dates is crucial for unbiased analysis of healthcare utilization and outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate an algorithm that accurately differentiates health plan disenrollment due to death from other causes.
  • To improve the reliability of retrospective claims-based research by enabling precise identification of mortality.
  • To provide a publicly available tool for researchers to identify death-related disenrollments.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a large dataset of 5,259,735 adults disenrolled from private insurance (2007-2018).
  • Employed elastic net regression, incorporating medical conditions, demographics, treatment utilization, and insurance factors from prior year claims.
  • Validated the algorithm using the Social Security Death Index, inpatient discharge status, and administrative death indicators.

Main Results:

  • The algorithm classified 7.6% of all disenrollments as death-related.
  • Internal validation demonstrated high performance: positive predictive value of 0.815, sensitivity of 0.721, specificity of 0.986, and an AUC of 0.97.
  • External validation and an applied example confirmed the algorithm's robustness and utility.

Conclusions:

  • The developed algorithm effectively identifies death-related disenrollments in insurance claims data.
  • This tool enhances the accuracy of retrospective claims-based studies, addressing a significant limitation in US healthcare research.
  • The public availability of the code facilitates broader adoption and improved research quality.