American Diabetes Association: Economic costs of diabetes in the U.S. in 2007. Diabetes Care 31:596–615, 2008

Several numbers in Table 9 of the article above were copied incorrectly and have been corrected in the table below.

Table 9—

Health care expenditures in the U.S. by diabetes status and type of service, 2007 (in millions of dollars and % of U.S. total)

Cost componentPopulation with diabetes
Population without diabetesU.S. total*
Attributed to diabetes
Total incurred by people with diabetes
Dollars% of U.S. totalDollars% of U.S. total
Institutional care       
    Hospital inpatient 58,344 14 96,974 23 332,902 429,875 
    Nursing/residential facility 7,486 10 18,525 25 56,692 75,217 
Outpatient care       
    Physician's office 9,897 6 21,739 14 132,984 154,723 
    Emergency department 3,870 5 8,065 10 73,381 81,446 
    Ambulance services 103 5 370 18 1,726 2,096 
    Hospital outpatient 2,985 4 6,770 10 60,054 66,824 
    Home health 5,586 14 9,391 24 31,149 40,540 
    Hospice† 28 <1 NA NA NA 12,033 
    Podiatry 273 19 408 28 1,028 1,437 
Outpatient medications and supplies       
    Insulin 3,733 100 3,733 100 NA 3,733 
    Diabetic supplies 1,783 100 1,783 100 NA 1,783 
    Oral agents 8,586 100 8,586 100 NA 8,586 
    Retail prescriptions 12,692 8 26,035 17 127,562 153,597 
Other equipment and supplies 890 5 2,714 14 16,901 19,615 
Total* 116,257 11 205,092 20 834,379 1,051,505 
Cost componentPopulation with diabetes
Population without diabetesU.S. total*
Attributed to diabetes
Total incurred by people with diabetes
Dollars% of U.S. totalDollars% of U.S. total
Institutional care       
    Hospital inpatient 58,344 14 96,974 23 332,902 429,875 
    Nursing/residential facility 7,486 10 18,525 25 56,692 75,217 
Outpatient care       
    Physician's office 9,897 6 21,739 14 132,984 154,723 
    Emergency department 3,870 5 8,065 10 73,381 81,446 
    Ambulance services 103 5 370 18 1,726 2,096 
    Hospital outpatient 2,985 4 6,770 10 60,054 66,824 
    Home health 5,586 14 9,391 24 31,149 40,540 
    Hospice† 28 <1 NA NA NA 12,033 
    Podiatry 273 19 408 28 1,028 1,437 
Outpatient medications and supplies       
    Insulin 3,733 100 3,733 100 NA 3,733 
    Diabetic supplies 1,783 100 1,783 100 NA 1,783 
    Oral agents 8,586 100 8,586 100 NA 8,586 
    Retail prescriptions 12,692 8 26,035 17 127,562 153,597 
Other equipment and supplies 890 5 2,714 14 16,901 19,615 
Total* 116,257 11 205,092 20 834,379 1,051,505 
*

Numbers do not necessarily sum to totals because of rounding.

†

Estimates for hospice care attributed to diabetes are based on diabetes as the primary diagnosis code in the 2004 National Home and Hospice Care Survey. Estimates for total hospice costs incurred by diabetes status are not available.

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