{"id":37357,"date":"2022-03-11T16:25:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T22:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/business\/?p=37357"},"modified":"2022-03-17T11:45:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:45:44","slug":"covid-claims-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/business\/covid-claims-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID claims by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic had a impact on the nation&#8217;s health sector both in 2020 and 2021. COVID-19 claims and treatment costs have increased from 2020 to 2021 plan years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>COVID-19 claims paid accounted for 4.2% of medical costs in 2021 as compared to 2.5% in 2020<\/li>\n<li>5.9% of the member population received COVID-19 treatments in 2021 as compared to 3.4% in 2020<\/li>\n<li>Retirees 65+ accounted for 53.1% (285 admissions) of COVID-19 inpatient admissions and 5.7% ($880K) of COVID-19 claims paid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 55.6196%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.0077%;text-align: center\"><strong>2020<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.2785%;text-align: center\"><strong>2021<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\"><strong>IP Hospital Admissions<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.0077%;text-align: center\">256<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.2785%;text-align: center\">301<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\"><strong>Total COVID Tests<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.0077%;text-align: center\">30,677<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.2785%;text-align: center\">45,911<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\"><strong>Total Paid &#8211; Treatment<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.0077%;text-align: center\">$5,736,900<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.2785%;text-align: center\">$10,156,284<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%\"><strong>Total Paid &#8211; Testing<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.0077%;text-align: center\">$2,503,868<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.2785%;text-align: center\">$3,916,892<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic had a impact on the nation&#8217;s health sector both in 2020 and 2021. COVID-19 claims and treatment costs have increased from 2020 to 2021 plan years. COVID-19 claims paid accounted for 4.2% of medical costs in 2021 as compared to 2.5% in 2020 5.9% of the member population received COVID-19 treatments in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billing-and-premiums"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":50,"label":"Billing and Premiums"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Estela Felan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/business\/author\/efeagin\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":50,"name":"Billing and Premiums","slug":"billing-and-premiums","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":55,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":4,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":50,"category_count":4,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Billing and Premiums","category_nicename":"billing-and-premiums","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}