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24 HEALTH • Spring 2017 Stats and information from the health care sector These states had the highest rates of opioid-related deaths in 2015.* Opioid deaths PULSE The *Rates are per 100,000 population Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention West Virginia ............................................................................................................ 41.5 New Hampshire ...................................................................................................... 34.3 Kentucky .................................................................................................................. 29.9 Ohio.......................................................................................................................... 29.9 Rhode Island ........................................................................................................... 28.2 Pennsylvania ............................................................................................................ 26.3 Massachusetts ....................................................................................................... 25.7 New Mexico ............................................................................................................. 25.3 Utah ......................................................................................................................... 23.4 Tennessee ................................................................................................................ 22.2 Fallon Health and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care reported net losses in 2016, while Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Tufts Health Plan were in the black. Source: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts; Fallon Health; Harvard Pilgrim Health Care; Tufts Health Plan Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts $78.1M 2.8 million Fallon Health ($20.1M) 227,461 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care ($48.5M) 1.28 million Tufts Health Plan $3M 1.1 million Health plan performance Net income (loss) Membership Source: American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2015 1.3 million Number of Americans over the age of 40 who are legally blind 2.9 million Number of Americans over 40 who have low vision 4.2 million Number of Americans over 40 who are visually impaired Percentage of American men of Northern European descent who are colorblind. Just 0.5 percent of women have the condition and the incidence is much lower among most other ethnic groups studied. 8 Visual impairment in the U.S., by the numbers Snapshot

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