Table 4.

Patient Time Costs^* in Cancer Survivors and Individuals without a Cancer History, 2008–2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

			Cancer survivors	Individuals without a cancer history	Wald F p-value
Ages 18–64 years	All services	Base case: median hourly wage rate from BLS ($16.57) and hospitalization time of 16 hours per day	500.28	225.97	<.0001
		Sensitivity analysis: Median hourly wage rate ($16.57) and hospitalization time of 24 hours per day	615.18	268.08	<.0001
		Actual hourly wage rate from MEPS for employed for wages, value of home production for not employed for wages and hospitalization time of 16 hours per day	384.44	194.88	<.0001
	Service- specific estimates	Emergency room visits	16.47	10.64	<.0001
		Ambulatory surgery	35.09	13.06	<.0001
		Hospitalizations	235.77	86.91	<.0001
		Chemotherapy	18.14	0.07	<.0001
		Radiation therapy	13.15	0.22	<.0001
		Other provider office-based and hospital outpatient visits**	186.17	117.01	<.0001
Ages 65+ years	All services	Base case: median hourly wage rate from BLS ($16.57) and hospitalization time of 16 hours per day	$912.96	$606.91	<.0001
		Sensitivity analysis: Median hourly wage rate ($16.57) and hospitalization time of 24 hours per day	$1,149.02	$762.89	<.0001
		Actual hourly wage rate from MEPS for employed for wages, value of home production for not employed for wages and hospitalization time of 16 hours per day	$358.80	$240.76	<.0001
	Service- specific estimates	Emergency room visits	19.72	15.96	0.0016
		Ambulatory surgery	68.66	37.91	<.0001
		Hospitalizations	483.08	319.32	0.0014
		Chemotherapy	20.25	0.30	<.0001
		Radiation therapy	10.24	1.00	<.0001
		Other provider office-based and hospital outpatient visits**	319.32	237.76	<.0001

^*Predicted marginals from regression models with age, number of comorbid conditions, educational attainment, and gender as covariates

^**Hospital outpatient visits include MEPS zero-night inpatient visits

NOTE: Service-specific estimates were calculated using the base case median wage rate from BLS ($16.57) to value patient time.