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Introduction: Huntington's disease (HD) is a rare, genetic, and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disease, with a devastating impact on individuals and families across generations. Few estimates of HD epidemiology in the United States (US) exist. Methods: This study employed a retrospective cross-sectional design to examine the epidemiology of HD in the US Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary populations using 2016-2017 claims data from the Medicare 100% Research Identifiable Files (RIFs) and 2014 claims data from the Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX) files for 17 states. Medicare beneficiaries [GreaterEqual]65 years with a diagnosis of HD ([GreaterEqual]1 claim with ICD-10-CM code G10) in 2017 and Medicaid beneficiaries Keywords: Huntington's disease, Medicare, Medicaid, Epidemiology, Incidence, Prevalence
Author(s): Alex Exuzides [a]; Sheila R. Reddy [b]; Eunice Chang [b]; Jamie T. Ta [a]; Anisha M. Patel [a]; Caleb Paydar (corresponding author) [b]; George J. Yohrling [c] Introduction Huntington's [...]