Men Forgo Needed Treatment, Leads to Later Hospitalization
by Anthony Sibley (AJ) on Jul 28, 2013 | Views: 121 | Score: 0
| With Previous Health Plan | With HDHP | |
| Low-Serverity Issue | 37.9 | 5.2 |
| Medium-Serverity | 27.4 | 5.7 |
| High-Serverity Issue | 62.1 | 6.7 |
Emergency Room Visit Rate
Emergency Room Visits for Men with Health Issues
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Increasingly, employers are switching to high-deductible health plans for their workers, which cost less intervally, but have much higher deductibles when needing treatment. Men made significantly fewer emergency-room visits after the plan switch, a 24%-reduction in hospitalization the first year, which completely reversed to a 30%-increase in year-two. Women made fewer emergency-room visits only for low-severity issues.