The Economic Cost of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias to the California Medicaid Program (“Medi‐Cal”) in 1995
作者:
Joseph Menzin,
Kathleen Lang,
Mark Friedman,
Peter Neumann,
Jeffrey Cummings,
期刊:
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
(OVID Available online 1999)
卷期:
Volume 7,
issue 4
页码: 300-308
ISSN:1064-7481
年代: 1999
出版商: OVID
关键词: Dementias (general);Long-Term Care;Health Services;Economics
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Although state Medicaid programs may bear a large portion of the costs of Alzheimer's disease (AD), current information on spending is not available. Using a health insurance claims database for a 10% random sample of California Medicaid (“Medi-Cal”) recipients 60+ years of age, the authors estimated the excess cost of AD to Medi-Cal in 1995 as the difference in expenditures between an AD cohort (those with AD or related dementias) and an age- and sex-matched cohort without AD. Among 62,450 recipients, 2,575 (4.1%) were found to have AD or related dementias, and their average payments were approximately $7,700 higher (P<0.01) than those for the comparison group. These estimates suggest that Medi-Cal spends about $200 million on AD and related dementias annually, a burden that represents nearly 10% of state spending on elderly patients.
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