Table 2.
Per Capita Estimation of Health Care Costs and Opioid Use (1 Year After Diagnosis)
| Characteristics | Estimate, mean (SD) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matched | Not matched | |||||
| Nonsurgical | Surgical | P value | Nonsurgical | Surgical | P value | |
| Health care costs, $ | ||||||
| Unadjusted | 557.05 (1516.83) | 24 240.83 (20 716.16) | <.001 | 515.62 (1578.86) | 24 157.15 (21 091.8) | <.001 |
| Regression adjusted | 553.39 (124.88) | 24 267.55 (4658.68) | <.001 | 515.69 (93.17) | 24 327.57 (4044.37) | <.001 |
| Opioid use, No. of prescribed-days | ||||||
| Unmatched | 5.87 (27.12) | 32.26 (52.77) | <.001 | 5.63 (27.43) | 32.51 (53.03) | <.001 |
| Regression adjusted | 5.64 (1.78) | 32.52 (7.93) | <.001 | 5.63 (2.61) | 33.66 (9.62) | <.001 |