18th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 3-5, 2019 • Chicago, IL
Sensorineural Hearing Loss among Privately Insured US Children with Congenital CMV Disease: Estimates from Administrative Claims Data
Congenital CMV (cCMV) infection is the leading non-genetic cause of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). It is estimated that 50% of children with symptomatic and 10% with asymptomatic cCMV develop SNHL, which may be present at birth or develop later.
We retrospectively analyzed US administrative claims data for 231,259 children with employer-sponsored health insurance born during 2010-2013 and followed for ?4 years. Children with cCMV disease were defined as those with a diagnostic code for cCMV or CMV within 28 days of the first claim. SNHL was defined as ?3 diagnostic codes for SNHL, or ?1 procedural code for hearing aid or cochlear implant.
Among 222,961 children, 37 (0.17 per 1000) children were diagnosed with cCMV. Of those, 10 (27%) had SNHL at <4 years of age. In this presentation, we will present the median age of the first CMV diagnosis; 2) percent of children with billing codes for SNHL by 4 years of age; 3) and number of children with SNHL receiving amplification or cochlear implants
- audience will know the incidence of CMV as appear in claims data
- audience will now the number of CMV claimants who have hearing loss diagnosis
- audience will also know the number of hearing amplification and cochlear implant claims
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Presenter: Winnie Chung
Winnie Chung, Au.D, a Health Scientist with CDC, is the subject matter expert with the Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) team. Winnie Chung has been an audiology provider in various clinical setting from 1990 to 2009. She began her involvement in EHDI in 2001 providing outpatient hearing screening and diagnostic for newborns at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco and Oakland. From 2004 to 2009, besides coordinating Rhode Island state newborn hearing screening program, she also provided audiological services in the tertiary neonatal intensive care unit and managed the audiology outpatient clinic at Woman & Infants' Hospital. She joined CDC as a health scientist in April of 2009 providing technical assistance to state EHDI programs and investigating public health related issues for the CDC-EHDI team.
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Scott Grosse is a health economist with the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.
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Jessica Leung is an epidemiologist in the Division of Viral Diseases at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
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