Table 2.
Health insurance characteristics
| |
Breast cancer |
Carboplatin-treated lung cancer |
Cisplatin-treated lung cancer |
|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | Older 5-HT3RAs | Palonosetron | P | All | Older 5-HT3RAs | Palonosetron | P | All | Older 5-HT3RAs | Palonosetron | P | |
| N |
3,606 |
1,742 |
1,864 |
|
4,497 |
2,691 |
1,806 |
|
1,154 |
764 |
390 |
|
|
Type of payer (%) |
|
|
|
NS |
|
|
|
NS |
|
|
|
NS |
| Commercial |
3,321 (92.1) |
1,592 (91.4) |
1,729 (92.8) |
|
3,632 (80.8) |
2,149 (79.9) |
1,483 (82.1) |
|
971 (84.1) |
638 (83.5) |
333 (85.4) |
|
| Public |
167 (4.6) |
87 (5.0) |
80 (4.3) |
|
715 (15.9) |
448 (16.7) |
267 (14.8) |
|
121 (10.5) |
81 (10.6) |
40 (10.3) |
|
| Self-insured |
100 (2.8) |
54 (3.1) |
46 (2.5) |
|
134 (3.0) |
84 (3.1) |
50 (2.8) |
|
55 (4.8) |
39 (5.1) |
16 (4.1) |
|
| Unknown |
18 (0.5) |
9 (0.5) |
9 (0.5) |
|
16 (0.4) |
10 (0.4) |
6 (0.3) |
|
7 (0.6) |
6 (0.8) |
1 (0.3) |
|
|
Type of plan (%) |
|
|
|
<0.0001 |
|
|
|
<0.0001 |
|
|
|
NS |
| HMO |
813 (22.6) |
434 (24.9) |
379 (20.3) |
|
1,071 (23.8) |
734 (27.3) |
337 (18.7) |
|
272 (23.6) |
182 (23.8) |
90 (23.1) |
|
| Indemnity |
320 (8.9) |
136 (7.8) |
184 (9.9) |
|
854 (19.0) |
499 (18.5) |
355 (19.7) |
|
170 (14.7) |
112 (14.7) |
58 (14.9) |
|
| PPO |
1,742 (48.3) |
792 (45.5) |
950 (51.0) |
|
1,982 (44.1) |
1,114 (41.4) |
868 (48.1) |
|
551 (47.8) |
360 (47.1) |
191 (49.0) |
|
| POS |
556 (15.4) |
316 (18.1) |
240 (12.9) |
|
462 (10.3) |
278 (10.3) |
184 (10.2) |
|
120 (10.4) |
77 (10.1) |
43 (11.0) |
|
| Other |
175 (4.9) |
64 (3.7) |
111 (6.0) |
|
128 (2.9) |
66 (2.5) |
62 (3.4) |
|
41 (3.6) |
33 (4.3) |
8 (2.1) |
|
|
Pharmacy benefit (%) |
|
|
|
0.0008 |
|
|
|
<0.0001 |
|
|
|
NS |
| No |
700 (19.4) |
300 (17.2) |
400 (21.5) |
|
1,229 (27.3) |
656 (24.4) |
573 (31.7) |
|
246 (21.3) |
151 (19.8) |
95 (24.4) |
|
| Yes |
2,372 (65.8) |
1,198 (68.8) |
1,174 (63.0) |
|
2,809 (62.5) |
1,769 (65.7) |
1,040 (57.6) |
|
761 (65.9) |
518 (67.8) |
243 (62.3) |
|
| Unknown | 534 (14.8) | 244 (14.0) | 290 (15.6) | 459 (10.2) | 266 (9.9) | 193 (10.7) | 147 (12.7) | 95 (12.4) | 52 (13.3) | |||
HMO: health maintenance organization, PPO: preferred provider organization, POS: point of service, pts: patients.