Valganciclovir use among commercially and Medicaid-insured infants with congenital CMV infection in the United States, 2009–2015

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• Alternative Title:
  Clin Ther
• Personal Author:
  Leung, Jessica ; Dollard, Sheila C. ; Grosse, Scott D. ; Chung, Winnie ; Do, ThuyQuynh ; Patel, Manisha ; Lanzieri, Tatiana M.
• Description:
  Purpose
  
  To assess clinical characteristics and trends in valganciclovir use among infants diagnosed with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease in the United States.
  
  Methods
  
  We analyzed 2009–2015 medical claims from Truven Health MarketScan® Commercial Claims and Encounters and Medicaid databases. We identified infants with a live birth code in the first claim who were enrolled for at least 45 days. Among infants diagnosed with congenital CMV disease, identified by an ICD-9-CM or ICD-10-CM code of congenital CMV infection or CMV disease within 45 days of birth, we assessed codes for CMV-associated clinical condition within the same period, and hearing loss and valganciclovir claims within the first 180 days.
  
  Findings
  
  In the commercial and Medicaid databases, we identified 257 (2.5/10,000) and 445 (3.3/10,000) infants diagnosed with congenital CMV disease, respectively, among whom 135 (53%) and 282 (63%) had ≥1 CMV-associated condition, 30 (12%) and 32 (7%) had hearing loss, and 41 (16%) and 78 (18%) had valganciclovir claims. Among infants with congenital CMV disease who had valganciclovir claims, 37 (90%) among commercially-insured infants and 68 (87%) among Medicaid-insured infants had ≥1 CMV-associated condition and/or hearing loss. From 2009 to 2015, the proportion with valganciclovir claims increased from 0% to 29% among commercially-insured infants and from 4% to 37% among Medicaid-insured infants (p<0.0001).
  
  Implications
  
  During 2009–2015, there was a strong upward trend in valganciclovir claims among insured infants who were diagnosed with congenital CMV disease, the majority of whom had CMV-associated conditions and/or hearing loss.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Antiviral Agents Cytomegalovirus Infections Databases, Factual Female Hearing Loss, Sensorineural Humans Infant Infant, Newborn International Classification Of Diseases Male Medicaid Valganciclovir

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• Source:
  Clin Ther. 40(3):430-439.e1.
• Pubmed ID:
  29397198
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5857424
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  40
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:604d2220cc9d90df9a1d2737072d1f2a3277a179578958a156da418bfc7f757b
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/52630/cdc_52630_DS1.pdf
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