Variation in Provider Identification of Obesity by Individual- and Neighborhood-Level Characteristics among an Insured Population

Table 1

Characteristics of the study sample ($N$ = 16,151).

	Overall	Obesity claim
		Yes	No
Neighborhood-level characteristics (ZIP code level)
Mean proportion of Black residents	5.3%	4.0%	5.3%
Median household income	$\$$43,846	$\$$44,908	$\$$43,636
Mean percent high school graduate	70.5%	70.6%	70.5%
Mean proportion urban	81.7%	84.3%	81.5%
Mean proportion of residents above federal poverty	87.6%	87.2%	87.6%
Member-level characteristics
Female	52.0%	66.1%	50.9%
Mean age	48.4 years	47.2 years	48.5 years
Hypertension	29.2%	46.4%	27.8%
Type 2 Diabetes	10.3%	15.9%	9.8%
Dyslipidemia	26.8%	41.7%	25.5%
Mean BMI	34.7	37.6	34.5
Obesity class
Class I	64.9%	42.2%	66.8%
Class II	23.1%	29.8%	22.6%
Class III	12.0%	28.1%	10.6%
Mean number of distinct provider seen in HRA year	2.0	2.9	1.9
Mean number of specialist visits in HRA year	8.2	12.0	7.8
Obesity claim
Physician identification of obesity in claims data	7.7%	—	—