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We investigated whether ARS symptomatology could explain this disproportionate ED use.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Study Design<\/jats:title><jats:p>2006\u20102010\u00a0National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Setting<\/jats:title><jats:p>EDs in the United States.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Subjects and Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The data comprise 1,632,826 adult visits for uncomplicated ARS at hospital EDs. Patient\u2010reported reasons for presentation included constitutional symptoms, facial pain or headache, sinonasal symptoms, head cold or flu\u2010like symptoms, cough or sputum production, and sore throat. Patient\u2010reported pain level was also included. Symptoms were assessed for associations with insurance status and race after controlling for clinical, demographic, and socioeconomic characteristics.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Medicaid patients had similar symptomatology and levels of pain when compared with privately insured patients. Self\u2010pay patients reported higher pain levels (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> =. 033) and were less likely to report head cold or flu\u2010like symptoms (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> =. 018) but were equally likely to report other symptomatology. Relative to white patients, Hispanic patients were more likely to complain of facial pain and headaches (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> =. 033) and less likely to complain of other classical ARS symptoms, such as cough or sputum production (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> =. 013), sinonasal symptoms (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> =. 019), or head cold or flu\u2010like symptoms (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> =. 019). Black patients were also less likely to complain of sinonasal symptoms (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> =. 038).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Symptomatology does not explain disproportionate ED use for ARS by Medicaid patients, while higher self\u2010reported pain levels may explain self\u2010pay patients\u2019 disproportionate ED utilization. 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