LexisNexis Risk Solutions Identifies Breast Cancer Treatment Facilities in the U.S. with the Highest Patient Populations

California, Florida and New York have highest volumes of patients with breast cancer diagnoses

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Nov 12, 2018, 13:11 ET

ATLANTA, Nov. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The LexisNexis® Risk Solutions healthcare business has identified the breast cancer treatment facilities in the U.S. with the highest patient volumes, based on its analysis of annual patient volume data ending in June 2018. The volume data is derived from medical claims data and highlighted the following facilities:

Cleveland Clinic Foundation – Cleveland, Ohio
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – Boston, Mass.
El Paso Cancer Treatment Center – El Paso, Texas
Massachusetts General Hospital – Boston, Mass.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center – New York, N.Y.
Methodist University Hospital – Memphis, Tenn.
Northside Hospital – Atlanta, Ga.
University of Kansas Hospital – Kansas City, Kan.
University of Michigan Health System – Ann Arbor, Mich.
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center – Houston, Texas

LexisNexis maintains and analyzes data from more than 6 billion medical claims – quantifying patient volumes by clinical service line, care setting and procedure. The analysis also determined that California, Florida and New York have the highest volume of patients diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 – all with 600,000 or more cases. The number of patients receiving the most common breast cancer treatments in these states are as follows:

State	Radiation Therapy	Mastectomy	Infused Chemotherapy
California	17,476	15,492	17,651
Florida	14,211	17,148	15,021
New York	15,513	13,709	18,590

A graphic representation of the numbers can be found here.

"Insights like these can help health systems determine allocation of resources, identify ways to improve care management and help to track therapy and procedure utilization trends," said Abbey Bernardi, director of market planning, LexisNexis Risk Solutions. "Understanding the market dynamics for medical conditions like cancer can help healthcare organizations in areas like strategic planning, physician outreach and population health management. It's a powerful advantage for providers when they can quantify various conditions, as well as their treatments, from a national perspective all the way down to the healthcare providers and locations delivering care."

Other important areas of analysis include referral patterns and affiliations. They can help transform key business work streams including marketing, sales, market research, network optimization and recruitment.

To learn more about LexisNexis research and analysis capabilities, visit https://risk.lexisnexis.com/products/marketview.

About LexisNexis Risk Solutions
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions harnesses the power of data and advanced analytics to provide insights that help businesses and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe. We provide data and technology solutions for a wide range of industries including insurance, financial services, healthcare and government. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout the world and are part of RELX Group (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries. For more information, please visit www.risk.lexisnexis.com, and www.relx.com.

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