Table 2.

Price Shopping Attitude and Behavior by Type of Health Plan

Attitude or Behaviora	HDHP, %	Non-HDHP, %	P Value
Health care prices and quality
There are large differences in prices for medical careb	60	58	.49
There are large differences in quality of medical careb	68	64	.19
Regarding choice of physician
Higher-priced physicians provide higher quality carec	17	20	.21
Out-of-pocket costs are important when choosing a physiciand	71	68	.17
Regarding choice of facilities
Higher price facilities provide higher quality carec	16	25	.001
Out-of-pocket costs are important when choosing a radiology facilityb	81	74	.003
Would use information on prices if availablec	56	50	.06
During your last use of medical care, did you…
Consider other health care professionals?	11	10	.67
Consider other health care professionals and compare costs across health care professionals?	4	3	.37

Abbreviation: HDHP, high-deductible health plan.

^aAttitude or behavior are weighted frequencies. Shopping activities are predicted probabilities based on logistic regression and adjusted for differences in age, sex, health status, income, education, race/ethnicity, employment status, and whether patients have family coverage. An HDHP was defined as having an individual coverage deductible $1250 or greater or a family coverage deductible of $2500 or greater.

^bCorresponds to the share of respondents who reported agree/strongly agree.

^cCorresponds to the share of respondents who reported likely/very likely.

^dCorresponds to the share of respondents who reported important/very important.