Association of High-Deductible Health Plans With Health Care Use and Costs for Patients With Cardiovascular Disease.

ABSTRACT: Background By increasing cost sharing, high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) aim to reduce low-value health care use. The association of HDHPs with health care use and costs in patients with chronic cardiovascular disease is unknown. Methods and Results This longitudinal cohort study analyzed 57 690 privately insured patients, aged 18 to 64 years, from a large commercial claims database with chronic cardiovascular disease from 2011 to 2019. Health care entities in which all or most beneficiaries switched from being in a traditional plan to an HDHP were identified. A difference-in-differences design was used to account for differences between individuals who remained in traditional plans and those who switched to HDHPs and to assess changes in health care use and costs. Among the 934 individ

SUBMITTER: Gupta R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10727247 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature