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Chronic Disease Cost Calculator
Chronic diseases – such as heart disease,
stroke, cancer, and diabetes – are among the
most prevalent, costly, and preventable of all health problems. Medicaid
spending has grown rapidly in recent years and is placing a significant burden
on state budgets. It has become increasingly important to help states quantify
and understand the financial impact caused by chronic diseases, as well as to
inform state decisions on investments in chronic disease prevention and disease
management programs.
To help states estimate the burden and financial impact of chronic
diseases among their Medicaid beneficiaries, the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention and RTI International, in partnership with the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Association of Chronic Disease
Directors, and the National Pharmaceutical Council, developed the Chronic
Disease Cost Calculator.
The Chronic Disease Cost Calculator is a downloadable tool that supports
states in:
(1) Estimating state Medicaid expenditures for six chronic
diseases – congestive heart failure,
heart disease, stroke, hypertension, cancer, and diabetes.
(2) Generating estimates of the costs to Medicaid of selected
chronic diseases using customized inputs (e.g., prevalence rates and
treatment costs).
It is important to note that the Cost Calculator does not provide exact
prevalence and Medicaid costs of the chronic diseases for each state. All
reported numbers are estimates and could differ from actual values. The
uncertainty in the estimates arises from a number of factors: the
combination of several data sources, different levels of geographic detail
available in the source data, and the fact that the parameters of the
statistical analysis are themselves estimates. Due to differences in data
sources and methods, the estimates will not necessarily agree with other
cost estimates. When discrepancies occur between Cost Calculator estimates
and other state Medicaid estimates, users should contact their state
Medicaid department and state health department for clarification.
For a detailed explanation of Cost Calculator methodology, including how
it calculates prevalence and per person costs, refer to the
Chronic Disease
Cost Calculator Technical Appendix (PDF–740K).
For a detailed explanation of how to use the Cost Calculator, refer to the
Chronic Disease Cost Calculator User Guide (PDF–781K).
Links:
One or more documents on this Web page is available in Portable Document Format
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Page last reviewed: October 28, 2008
Page last modified: October 28, 2008
Content source: National Center for
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