Association of High-Deductible Health Plans and Time to Surgery for Breast and Colon Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

High-deductible health plans (HDHPs) have been shown to delay timing of breast and colon cancer screening, although the relationship to the timing of cancer surgery is unknown. The objective of this study was to characterize timing of surgery for breast and colon cancer patients undergoing cancer operations following routine screening.

Study design

Data from the IBM MarketScan Commercial Claims Database from 2007 to 2016 were queried to identify patients who underwent screening mammogram and/or colonoscopy. The calendar quarters of screening and surgery were analyzed with ordinal logistic regression. The time from screening to surgery (time to surgery, TTS) was evaluated using a Cox proportional hazard function.

Results

Among 32,562,751 patients who had scr

SUBMITTER: Sheckter CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11585011 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature