Ambulatory Health Care Service Use and Costs Among Commercially Insured US Adults With Congenital Heart Disease

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Sep 1;3(9):e2018752. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.18752.

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.
³ Division of Prevention Science, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine, and Center for Healthcare Value, University of California, San Francisco.
⁵ Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program, Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland.
⁶ Division of Cardiology, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC.

Abstract

This study examines the ambulatory health care use and costs of adults with congenital heart disease in the US.