Applications for social security benefits related to diabetes in the working age in Italy between 2009 and 2019: a nationwide retrospective cohort study
Katherine Esposito,
Maria Ida Maiorino,
Giuseppe Bellastella,
Dario Giugliano,
Francesco Saverio Mennini,
Marco Trabucco Aurilio,
Lorenzo Scappaticcio,
Miriam Longo,
Claudia Nardone,
Luca Coppeta,
Simone Gazzillo,
Raffaele Migliorini
Affiliations
Katherine Esposito
Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy
Maria Ida Maiorino
Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy
Giuseppe Bellastella
Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy
Dario Giugliano
Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy
Francesco Saverio Mennini
Centre for Economics and International Studies–Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
Marco Trabucco Aurilio
Office of Medical Forensic Coordination, Italian National Social Security Institute (INPS), Rome, Italy
Lorenzo Scappaticcio
Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy
Miriam Longo
Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy
Claudia Nardone
CEIS-Economic Evaluation and HTA (EEHTA), Faculty of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Luca Coppeta
Department of Occupational Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Simone Gazzillo
CEIS-Economic Evaluation and HTA (EEHTA), Faculty of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Raffaele Migliorini
Office of Medical Forensic Coordination, Italian National Social Security Institute (INPS), Rome, Italy
Objectives The aim of this study is to estimate the average number of claims for social security benefits from workers with diabetes-related disability.Design Nationwide retrospective cohort study.Setting The database of the Italian Social Security Institute (INPS) was used to analyse the trends and the breakdown of all claims for social security benefit with diabetes as primary diagnosis from 2009 to 2019.Participants We selected all the applications with the 250.xx International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision-CM diagnosis code from 2009 to 2019.Primary and secondary outcome measures The ratio between accepted or rejected claims for both ordinary incapacity benefit (OIB) and disability pension (DP) and total submitted claims over a 10-year period was computed.Results From 2009 to 2019, 40 800 applications for social security benefits were filed with diabetes as the principal diagnosis, with an annual increase of 30% per year. Throughout the study decade, there was a higher rate of rejected (67.2%) than accepted (32.8%) applications. Among the accepted requests, most of them (30.7%) were recognised as OIB and the remaining 2.1% were recognised as DP. When related to the total number of claims presented per year, there was a 8.8% decrease of rejected applications, associated with a 20.6% increase of overall acceptance rate. In terms of time trends, the overall rise of submitted requests from 2009 to 2019 resulted in an increase in both rejected (+18%) and accepted (+61% for OIB, +11% for DP) applications. The higher rate of accepted requests was for workers aged 51–60 years, with 52% of admitted applications.Conclusions Between 2009 and 2019, the number of applications for social security benefits due to diabetes in Italy increased significantly, and so did the number of applications approved, mainly represented by the OIBs.
