Table 6.

Mean Annual Sick Time and Short-Term Disability Costs for Active Employees: MarketScan and HPM Data in 2009

	Sick time cost, $					Short-term disability cost, $
	With CAP (N = 2911)		Without CAP (N = 312,588)		With CAP vs without CAP	With CAP (N = 9118)		Without CAP (N = 1,022,113)		With CAP vs without CAP
	Mean (SD), $	No sick time, %	Mean (SD), $	No sick time, %	P value of t-test of means	Mean (SD), $	No short-term disability, %	Mean (SD), $	No short-term disability, %	P value of t-test of means
Age, 18–49 yrs	949 (1747)	35.0	762 (1313)	43.3	<.001	826 (3266)	78.2	288 (2020)	93.0	<.001
Low risk	888 (1605)	35.8	742 (1239)	43.7	<.001	689 (3033)	81.6	252 (1833)	93.6	<.001
Moderate risk	1172 (2209)	31.9	1034 (1902)	35.9	.185	1097 (3545)	63.2	692 (3121)	84.0	.001
High risk	1642 (2797)	26.5	1557 (3450)	34.8	.418	3136 (5847)	52.0	2150 (7019)	72.5	.010
Age, 50–64 yrs	1372 (2310)	27.1	1008 (1918)	38.7	<.001	1320 (4172)	70.2	396 (2617)	92.4	<.001
Low risk	1185 (1525)	27.2	927 (1672)	39.7	<.001	801 (2998)	79.3	279 (2114)	94.0	<.001
Moderate risk	1673 (3544)	25.6	1358 (2602)	33.2	.058	1767 (5135)	59.0	752 (3591)	86.1	<.001
High risk	1948 (2763)	29.8	1976 (3953)	32.2	.543	3464 (6417)	43.0	2,283 (6819)	72.6	<.001
Total: age, 18–64 yrs	1129 (2001)	31.4	853 (1553)	41.6	<.001	1016 (3644)	75.0	322 (2226)	92.8	<.001
Low risk	1002 (1583)	32.3	808 (1399)	42.3	<.001	725 (3027)	80.8	260 (1919)	93.7	<.001
Moderate risk	1441 (2990)	28.1	1208 (2299)	34.3	.038	1462 (4480)	60.7	726 (3397)	85.2	<.001
High risk	1811 (2697)	28.9	1789 (3701)	33.1	.459	3359 (6194)	46.2	2230 (6899)	72.6	<.001

CAP indicates community-acquired pneumonia; HPM, Health and Productivity Management; SD, standard deviation.