F AIR Health is a nonprofit organization that manages the largest U.S. database of privately billed health insurance claims. It seeks to bring transparency to healthcare costs and health insurance information.
This week, FAIR Health brought clarity to several aspects of Lyme disease that until now have been mostly ignored. It accomplished this by publishing a white paper report called Trends and Patterns in Lyme Disease: An Analysis of Private Claims Data.
The report grew from an invitation from the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. A subcommittee of the TBDWG asked FAIR Health to present information about insurance coverage for Lyme disease. FAIR Health did so on October 18, 2019.
Now, the organization has compiled that information into a report that is available to the public.
According to the report, claim lines with the diagnosis of Lyme disease increased nationally by 117 percent between 2007 and 2018.1
An analysis of insurance claims only gives part of the picture, but it’s important data that has remained hidden for too long.
Among FAIR Health’s Other Findings
Predominance. Claim lines for Lyme disease accounted for 94 percent of claim lines for tick-borne diseases in 2018.
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