Pre-Diagnosis Excess Acute Care Costs in Alzheimer’s Patients among a US Medicaid Population

David Geldmacher, Noam Kirson (), Howard Birnbaum, Sara Eapen, Evan Kantor, Alice Cummings and Vijay Joish

Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 2013, vol. 11, issue 4, 407-413

Abstract: Compared with controls, Medicaid AD patients incurred higher acute care costs in the 12 months prior to their preliminary diagnosis, suggesting room for beneficial interventions and better disease management should earlier diagnosis become possible. These findings may be especially relevant in light of new criteria facilitating earlier diagnosis of AD. Copyright Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013

Date: 2013
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