The most expensive medical conditions in America.
This study uses a nationally representative survey to identify the most expensive conditions in the United States and to examine the association between spending and disability. The most expensive conditions at a population level were ischemic heart disease and motor vehicle accidents; at the per capita level they were respiratory malignancies. There was not a significant association between rank order of treatment costs and disability; the conditions with the greatest disability relative to expenditures were mood disorders, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and arthropathies. We use the findings to discuss the role for cost-of-illness and burden-of-disease estimates in setting priorities.
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, USA.
Benjamin G
BG
Druss
Steven C
SC
Marcus
Mark
M
Olfson
Harold Alan
HA
Pincus
D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004194:Disease / Q000145:classification* / Q000191:economics*; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007592:Joint Diseases / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology; D012142:Respiratory Tract Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology