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Volume 27, Number 2—February 2021
Research

Use of Commercial Claims Data for Evaluating Trends in Lyme Disease Diagnoses, United States, 2010–2018

Amy M. Schwartz, Kiersten J. Kugeler, Christina A. Nelson, Grace E. Marx, and Alison F. HinckleyComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

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Table 1

Characteristics of Lyme disease diagnoses in MarketScan database versus national surveillance, United States, 2010–2018*

Category 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Overall incidence
MarketScan 49.1 58.2 56.2 73.0 79.0 74.7 75.2 87.9 73.3
Surveillance
8.4
9.3
7.9
9.2
9.7
10.9
10.4
11.8
9.2
Incidence among male enrollees/population
MarketScan 46.8 58.2 54.1 74.0 81.0 77.9 74.8 88.9 73.9
Surveillance
9.2
10.4
8.5
10.6
11.3
12.8
11.9
13.7
10.6
Incidence among female enrollees/population
MarketScan 51.2 58.1 58.1 72.0 77.2 71.7 75.6 86.9 72.7
Surveillance
7.2
7.7
6.8
7.5
7.8
8.7
8.5
9.6
7.5
Seasonality, peak month (% of total occurring during May−August)
MarketScan June (53.0) June (55.2) June (52.0) July (59.4) July (60.1) July (60.5) June (53.6) July (57.9) June (56.9)
Surveillance June (68.8) June (71.4) June (64.6) July (73.7) July (72.8) July (74.0) June (69.2) July (71.0) June (66.0)

*Incidence calculated as diagnoses/100,000 enrollees in MarketScan or cases/100,000 population among each subcategory.

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