Association of Cost Sharing With Delayed and Complicated Presentation of Acute Appendicitis or Diverticulitis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Treatment delays are associated with increased morbidity and cost of disease, although the extent to which cost sharing influences timely presentation and management of acute surgical disease remains unknown. Given recent policy changes using cost sharing to modify health care behavior, this study examines the association of cost sharing with the health of the patient at presentation and with receipt of optimal or minimally invasive surgery.

Objective

To assess whether cost sharing is associated with the likelihood of early, uncomplicated patient presentation or with surgical management of 2 representative emergency general surgery diagnoses: acute appendicitis and acute diverticulitis.

Design setting and participants

This cohort study used Health Care Cost

SUBMITTER: Loehrer AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8796960 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature