Table 5.
Postmatching: Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs Among Statin Users (Follow-Up)
| Statin benefit group 1 patients | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthcare resource utilization, costs per patient | High-intensity statin initiators (N = 16,793) | Low-/moderate-intensity statin initiators (N = 16,964) | P value |
| Postindex | |||
| All-cause utilization | |||
| Patients with ≥1 physician office visits, N (%) | 16,522 (98.4) | 16,737 (98.7) | .036 |
| Physician office visits, mean (SD) | 9.8 (8.31) | 9.5 (8.03) | .001 |
| Patients with ≥1 other outpatient visits, N (%) | 16,234 (96.7) | 16,338 (96.3) | .071 |
| Other outpatient visits, mean (SD) | 19.4 (24.20) | 18.3 (22.54) | <.001 |
| Patients with ≥1 emergency department visits, N (%) | 4097 (24.4) | 3946 (23.3) | .014 |
| Emergency department visits, mean (SD) | 0.4 (1.00) | 0.4 (1.08) | .053 |
| Patients with ≥1 inpatient hospitalizations, N (%) | 4898 (29.2) | 4575 (27.0) | <.001 |
| Hospitalizations, mean (SD) | 0.5 (1.00) | 0.4 (1.04) | <.001 |
| LOS of those with hospitalizations, mean (SD) | 6.6 (13.05) | 6.4 (12.91) | .469 |
| Patients with ≥1 pharmacy dispensings, N (%) | 16,793 (100.0) | 16,964 (100.0) | — |
| Prescription fills, mean (SD) | 45.9 (28.38) | 44.0 (28.18) | <.001 |
| Disease-related utilization | |||
| Patients with ≥1 physician office visits, N (%) | 13,901 (82.8) | 13,377 (78.9) | <.001 |
| Patients with ≥1 other outpatient visits, N (%) | 11,735 (69.9) | 10,975 (64.7) | <.001 |
| Patients with ≥1 emergency department visits, N (%) | 1971 (11.7) | 1728 (10.2) | <.001 |
| Patients with ≥1 inpatient hospitalizations, N (%) | 4273 (25.4) | 3850 (22.7) | <.001 |
| All-cause costs | |||
| Total medical, $ | 18,606 (40,817) | 17,209 (39,767) | .001 |
| Physician office, $ | 1471 (3731) | 1352 (2849) | .001 |
| Outpatient, $ | 6913 (16,148) | 6526 (17,239) | .034 |
| Emergency department, $ | 689 (2547) | 654 (2483) | .209 |
| Inpatient, $ | 9534 (32,679) | 8676 (31,358) | .014 |
| Pharmacy, $ | 3975 (4495) | 3389 (4656) | <.001 |
| Total, $ | 22,581 (41,938) | 20,597 (40,841) | <.001 |
| Median (IQR), $ | 9971 (5144–23,194) | 8636 (4218–20,412) | — |
| Disease-related costs | |||
| Total medical, $ | 12,345 (33,344) | 10,901 (32,087) | <.001 |
| Physician office, $ | 510 (1102) | 429 (707) | <.001 |
| Other outpatient, $ | 3005 (8707) | 2602 (8402) | <.001 |
| Emergency department, $ | 362 (1856) | 312 (1592) | .008 |
| Inpatient, $ | 8467 (30,681) | 7558 (29,678) | .006 |
| Pharmacy, $ | 905 (733) | 470 (571) | <.001 |
| Total, $ | 13,250 (33,365) | 11,371 (32,106) | <.001 |
| Median (IQR), $ | 2974 (1210–11,107) | 1961 (556–8241) | — |
IQR indicates interquartile range; LOS, length of stay; SD, standard deviation.