Understanding the relationship between patient demographics, chronic conditions, and heart attack and stroke prevalence can provide insight and a benchmark for organizations focused on improving prevention, early intervention, and public education efforts around cardiovascular risk factors and disease.
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This dashboard allows you to view heart attack and stroke rates, as well as cardiovascular-related chronic condition prevalence, by key demographics and geography among the Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in the Million Hearts Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Model target population.
Use the Demographic Category radio buttons on the left side of the dashboard to select the demographic that you would like to filter by. Then, use the Demographic Group drop-down menu to select the group of interest within that demographic. All dashboards will update to reflect this group selection. Note that, when selecting “Overall” from the Demographic filter, you will also need to select “All” from the Group drop-down.
Use the State filter above the maps to limit the map views to specific state(s) of interest. Note that this filter will not impact the non-map views.
Data Source & Methodology
This dashboard is based on the full Medicare fee-for-service claims database. Demographics (gender, race, age) are sourced from the 2019 Master Beneficiary Summary File (MBSF). Chronic conditions and tobacco use history are based on the CMS condition categories.
The target population for the Million Hearts Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Model are Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries between 40-79 years old, who have not had a previous heart attack, stroke, or transient ischemic attack. The model excludes patients in hospice or who have end-stage renal disease (ESRD).
The data used in this dashboard follow these specifications, looking at full-year Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2019, who did not have any ESRD enrolled months, and who did not have any hospice spend in 2019. Patients with a history of heart attack or stroke are present in the dataset to track prevalence rates. The chart Count of Eligible Beneficiaries shows the number of beneficiaries who are eligible for the Million Hearts Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Model - those without a history of heart attack or stroke.
If you’re interested in better understanding cardiovascular condition prevalence, treatment and risk, we want to hear from you! CareJourney can help by looking deeper to explore your organization’s patient population, patients in specific geographies or sub-cohorts of interest, as well as provider performance in treating these patient populations.
Should you have any additional questions, please reach out to your main point of contact at CareJourney for more information and/or additional support regarding this analysis. If you do not have a main point of contact at CareJourney, please reach out to jumpstart@carejourney.com.
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