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. 2013 Sep-Oct;6(8):494–503.

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.