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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2024 May 23;52(9):1333–1343. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006335

Table 2.

Baseline Characteristics of Commerically-Insured Hospitalized Patients

Commercial
Non-ICU ICU
Sample (n) 16,732,960 1,989,222
Patient Characteristics
Age (years) 43.0 50.0
Sex (% female) 67.2 44.2
van Walraven-Elixhauser score 2.0 6.4
Geographic Characteristics (%)
North Central 23.5 23.9
Northeast 17.8 15.8
South 41.6 45.2
West 15.8 13.7
Unknown/Other 1.2 1.4
Insurance Characteristics (%)
Basic/major medical 0.0 0.0
CDHP 5.8 5.6
Comprehensive 2.7 3.7
EPO 1.7 1.5
HDHP 4.1 3.7
HMO 13.3 11.3
POS 7.8 7.1
POS with capitation 0.8 0.8
PPO 63.4 65.8
Unknown 4.3 3.9
Industry of Employer (%)
Finance Insurance Real Estate 7.8 6.0
Manufacturing 16.9 17.8
Oil Gas and Mining 0.9 0.9
Other 1.3 1.3
Retail Trade 3.2 3.1
Services 15.6 12.6
Transportation Comms Utilities 8.4 8.9
Unknown 46.0 48.3

This Table shows the baseline characteristics of the hospitalized patients within the IBM MarketScan Data for commercially-insured patients between 2008–2019.