American Diabetes Association

Table 7—

Health care expenditures attributable to diabetes in the U.S., by age and type of service, 2002 (in millions of dollars)

Type of service	Age (years)				Total
Type of service		<45	45–64	≥65	Total
Institutional care
Hospital inpatient days	5,207	13,838	21,293	40,337
Nursing home days	2,552	5,528	5,798	13,878
Outpatient care
Office-based physician encounters	1,851	2,678	5,505	10,033
Emergency department encounters	151	439	1,572	2,162
Hospital outpatient and free-standing ambulatory surgical center encounters	26	1,345	1,944	3,315
Home health visits	133	524	3,273	3,930
Hospice care days	5	46	492	543
Other expenditures
Ambulance services	28	40	77	146
Outpatient medication	756	1,991	2,769	5,516
Oral agents	533	2,318	2,157	5,009
Insulin and delivery supplies	1,355	2,891	2,745	6,991
Total	12,596	31,640	47,626	91,861

Type of service	Age (years)				Total
Type of service		<45	45–64	≥65	Total
Institutional care
Hospital inpatient days	5,207	13,838	21,293	40,337
Nursing home days	2,552	5,528	5,798	13,878
Outpatient care
Office-based physician encounters	1,851	2,678	5,505	10,033
Emergency department encounters	151	439	1,572	2,162
Hospital outpatient and free-standing ambulatory surgical center encounters	26	1,345	1,944	3,315
Home health visits	133	524	3,273	3,930
Hospice care days	5	46	492	543
Other expenditures
Ambulance services	28	40	77	146
Outpatient medication	756	1,991	2,769	5,516
Oral agents	533	2,318	2,157	5,009
Insulin and delivery supplies	1,355	2,891	2,745	6,991
Total	12,596	31,640	47,626	91,861