Example of Migraine Impact
How migraines impact sample employers:

Example 1.

• School district in the Northeast with 1,000 employees
• 174 employees can be expected to suffer from migraines
• With treatment, lost workday equivalents can be reduced by 509 days. *
• This means that the employer will pay $129,717 less in replacement costs **
• Treatment costs would be $53,287 ***
• The net savings to the school district would be expected to be $76,430 per year

Example 2.

• An employer in the North Central region of the country has 10,000 employees and is the Finance & Insurance industry
• 1,666 employees can be expected to suffer from migraines
• With treatment, lost workday equivalents can be reduced by 4,871 days. *
• This means that the employer will pay $1,225,895 less in replacement costs **
• Treatment costs would be $507,683 ***
• The net savings to the company would be expected to be $718,211 per year

Example 3.

• A governmental agency with 15,000 employees across the country
• 2,142 employees can be expected to suffer from migraines
• With treatment, lost workday equivalents can be reduced by 6,263 days. *
• This means that the employer will pay $1,571,122 less in replacement costs **
• Treatment costs would be $647,077 ***
• The net savings to the governmental entity would be expected to be $924,044 per year

 

* Lost workday equivalents includes the number of days a person was absent from work and a calculation of the amount of work missed because of reduced effectiveness on the job known as presenteeism.

 

**The costs of absenteeism are directly related to replacement costs, which are dependent on total compensation. Compensation is comprised of average wages, benefits and fringes for each specific industry as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  Users of the model are able to adjust the wages and benefits to better represent their own companies.

*** The model takes account the cost of triptan treatment. The average treatment costs include the cost for the medicine that the employer or health plan will pay, which is partially offset by the employee co-pay for the prescription. The default co-pay value used by this calculator is  $25 per prescription based on HSM’s analysis of publicly available data.