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Volume 30, Number 2—February 2024
Dispatch

Using Insurance Claims Data to Estimate Blastomycosis Incidence, Vermont, USA, 2011–2020

Brian F. BorahComments to Author , Paul Meddaugh, Veronica Fialkowski, and Natalie Kwit
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (B. Borah); Vermont Department of Health, Burlington, Vermont, USA (B. Borah, P. Meddaugh, N. Kwit); Green Mountain Care Board, Montpelier, Vermont, USA (V. Fialkowski)

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Table

Characteristics of patients with blastomycosis, Vermont, USA, 2011–2020*

Characteristic All patients Hospitalized patients Deaths
Total
114 (100)
34 (30)
4†
Sex
M 67 (59) 20 (59) 1 (25)
F
47 (41)
14 (41)
3 (75)
Insurance type
Commercial 48 (42) ≤10† NA
Medicare 42 (37) 19 (56) NA
Medicaid
24 (21)
≤10†
NA
Age category, y
0–19 ≤10‡ ≤10† 0
20–39 21 (18) ≤10† 0
40–59 40 (35) 11 (32) 2 (50)
60–79 43 (38) 12 (35) 1 (25)
≥80
≤10‡
≤10†
1 (25)
Median age, y (range) 55 (0–89) 56 (3–89) 59 (45–90)

*Values are no. (%) except as indicated. †Deaths were identified from different data source than patients and hospitalizations; death rate cannot be calculated. ‡In accordance with the Green Mountain Care Board data use agreement for the Vermont Health Care Uniform Reporting and Evaluation System, all results with a patient count ≤10 must be suppressed.

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