Table 1

Insurance utilization among trauma patients admitted in 2018, 2019 and the prepandemic 2020 period, and the pandemic period

AllPeriod 1Period 2Period 3P valuePtrend value
n=31 225n=12 651 (41%)n=15 286 (49%)n=3288 (11%)
Uninsured4921 (16%)1839 (15%)*†2395 (16%)*‡687 (21%)†‡<0.010.02
Medicaid3734 (12%)1528 (12%)1821 (12%)385 (12%)0.820.70
Medicare11 932 (38%)4926 (39%)*5893 (39%)†11 113 (34%)*†<0.010.61
Commercial/private12 385 (40%)5071 (40%)6024 (39%)1290 (39%)0.460.27
Other government1204 (4%)478 (4%)602 (4%)124 (4%)0.740.47
Other668 (2%)290 (3%)328 (2%)50 (1%)0.060.46
  • P values show the overall p value for the insurance type across the three time periods, and p values meeting the significance threshold of p<0.05 are emphasized in bold. Symbols show which two-way comparisons were significant at p<0.05. Total numbers of patients in the rows may not add up to the column totals because patients are included more than once if they used multiple types of insurance.

  • Period 1 is January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018, Period 2 is January 1, 2019 to March 15, 2020, and Period 3 is March 16, 2020 to June 30, 2020.