For all of these reproductive categories, patients given these diagnostic codes at least doubled from 2020, when COVID vaccines were not yet available, to 2021 and 2022, when the vast majority of Ontarians received at least two doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
Healthcare professionals working in outpatient settings use OHIP billing/diagnostic codes to submit claims to the Ontario Health Insurance Program.
OHIP Code 614 - Acute OR Chronic Salpingitis, Oophoritis, or Abscess, Pelvic Inflammation Disease - to 15,043 distinct patients, more than twice as many unique patients than received that diagnostic code in 2020 when the vaccines were not yet available.
OHIP Code 626 - Disorders of Menstruation - to 837,425 distinct patients, over 2.25 times the number who received this diagnostic code in the pre-COVID vaccines year of 2020.
OHIP Code 627 - Menopause, Post-Menopausal Bleeding - to 387,741 unique patients, more than 2.5 times those coded to 627 in 2020 before COVID vaccines were publicly available.
OHIP Code 628 - Infertility - to 224,900 distinct patients, almost 2.3 times greater than the number of patients coded to that diagnostic code in 2020.
OHIP Code 629 - Other Disorders of the Female Genital Organs - to 227,242 unique patients, more than 2.5 times the number times this code was given to patients in 2020.
OHIP Code 632 - Missed Abortion - to 30,430 distinct patients, more than two times the patients assigned this code in 2020.
OHIP Code 634 - Incomplete Abortion, Complete Abortion - to 44,929 unique patients, more than twice as many patients who received this diagnostic code before COVID vaccines in 2020.
A medical coder may accidentally transpose a number in a diagnostic code and, thus, enter the incorrect code into the system.
In looking at the data, one sees that males listed in diagnostic codes associated with women's health, and women listed in diagnostic codes associated with men's health.
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