Health Care Costs of Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias Within a Medicare Managed Care Provider

The objective of this study was to estimate direct health care costs attributable to ADRD among older adults within a large MA plan. Research Design: A retrospective cohort design was used to estimate direct total, outpatient, inpatient, ambulatory pharmacy, and nursing home costs for 3 years before and after an incident ADRD diagnosis for 927 individuals diagnosed with ADRD relative to a sex-matched and birth year-matched set of 2945 controls. Subject: Adults 65 years of age and older enrolled in the Kaiser Permanente Washington MA plan and the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) Study, a prospective longitudinal cohort study of ADRD and brain aging. Measures: Data on monthly health service use obtained from health system electronic medical records for the period 1992–2012. Results: Total monthly health care costs for individuals with ADRD are statistically greater (P
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