| |
Patients with HCV and ALD (Cases)
|
Patients with HCV and without ALD (Comparison)
|
Difference
|
P-value1
|
|---|
|
N
|
1193
|
1193
| | |
|
Inpatient
| | | | |
|
Mean (SD)
|
$2,649 ($4,179)
|
$337 ($981)
|
$2,312
|
< .001
|
|
Median
|
$905
|
$0
| | |
|
IQR
|
$0-$3,430
|
$0-$79
| | |
|
Outpatient2
| | | | |
|
Mean (SD)
|
$713 ($824)
|
$215 ($320)
|
$498
|
< .001
|
|
Median
|
$467
|
$132
| | |
|
IQR
|
$249-$902
|
$49-$270
| | |
|
Pharmacy
| | | | |
|
Mean (SD)
|
$791 ($1,401)
|
$818 ($1,312)
|
-$27
|
0.032
|
|
Median
|
$385
|
$462
| | |
|
IQR
|
$126-$895
|
$132-$1,029
| | |
|
Other costs3
| | | | |
|
Mean (SD)
|
$784 ($1,541)
|
$360 ($1,265)
|
$424
|
< .001
|
|
Median
|
$171
|
$90
| | |
|
IQR
|
$51-$669
|
$18-$208
| | |
|
Total costs
| | | | |
|
Mean (SD)
|
$4,937 ($5,236)
|
$1,730 ($2,309)
|
$3,207
|
< .001
|
|
Median
|
$3,146
|
$1,002
| | |
- Source: Florida Medicaid database: claims with dates of service between July 1, 1998 and June 30, 2008.
- Notes: All costs are inflated to 2009 USD using the Medical Care component of the CPI. Costs over the entire follow-up period were divided by the number of eligible patient months to create the PPPM cost estimates.
-
1Calculated with the Wilcoxon test for comparison of means.
-
2Patients may have received multiple outpatient services on the same day, including hospital outpatient, physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, clinic, or other outpatient services.
-
3 "Other" costs include nursing home, home health, hospice, and other services.
-
ALD advanced liver disease, HCV hepatitis C virus, PPPM per-patient-per-month.
