Sexually transmitted disease diagnoses overall rose roughly 5% among commercially insured patients from 2020 to 2023, according to an analysis of FAIR Health’s repository of 47 billion commercial health care claim records.
Patients aged 65 and older saw the largest increase (24%) in STD diagnoses during that period, per the claims, which include people covered by Medicare Advantage plans.
The next largest increase (about 16%) occurred among patients aged 55 to 64.
The findings are consistent with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data that has indicated a rise in STDs among adults 55 and older between 2012 and 2022.
By the numbers: The STD that saw the biggest jump in diagnoses among all adults was syphilis (29%) followed by gonorrhea (17%) and HIV/AIDS (14%).
Among seniors, the STD that had the largest increase was human papillomavirus (32.2%).
There was a 59% uptick in the number of male patients with gonorrhea, while the number of female patients with the same diagnosis fell by about 19%.
The number of female patients with syphilis jumped almost 47% compared with a roughly 23% increase in male patients.
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/08/stds-rise-among-seniors-syphilis-hpv-hiv-aids-gonorrhea
What explanation s there but the vaxx reducing immunity?
Medicare Advantage, the $450-billion-a-year system in which private insurers oversee Medicare benefits, grew out of the idea that the private sector could provide healthcare more economically. It has swelled over the last two decades to cover more than half of the 67 million seniors and disabled people on Medicare.
Instead of saving taxpayers money, Medicare Advantage has added tens of billions of dollars in costs, researchers and some government officials have said. One reason is that insurers can add diagnoses to ones that patients’ own doctors submit. Medicare gave insurers that option so they could catch conditions that doctors neglected to record. The Journal’s analysis, however, found many diagnoses were added for which patients received no treatment, or that contradicted their doctors’ views.
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicare-health-insurance-diagnosis-payments-b4d99a5d
“We beat Medicare.”
What explanation s there but the vaxx reducing immunity?
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have they included the migrants in the headcount?
Hedonism…
There’s a raft of maladies that are self induced by the citizenry and which should either be heavily pro-rated or fully paid out of pocket by the sufferers…
Uhhhhh... Promiscuous irresponsible sex among folk who ought to know better❓ 🤦