American Diabetes Association

Table 13—

Total cost of diabetes, 2002

Cost component	Total cost attributable to diabetes (millions of dollars)	Components’ proportion of total cost (%)^*
Health care expenditures	91,861	70
Institutional care	54,215	41
Hospital inpatient care	40,337	31
Nursing home care	13,878	11
Outpatient care	20,130	15
Physician office-based care	10,033	8
Emergency care	2,162	2
Ambulance services	146	0
Hospital outpatient care	3,315	3
Home healthcare	3,930	3
Hospice care	543	0
Outpatient medication and supplies	17,516	13
Outpatient medication	5,516	4
Insulin and delivery supplies	6,991	5
Oral agents	5,009	4
Indirect costs due to lost productivity	39,810	30
Lost work days	4,503	3
Restricted activity days	6,256	5
Mortality	21,558	16
Permanent disability	7,494	6
Total cost	131,672	100

Cost component	Total cost attributable to diabetes (millions of dollars)	Components’ proportion of total cost (%)^*
Health care expenditures	91,861	70
Institutional care	54,215	41
Hospital inpatient care	40,337	31
Nursing home care	13,878	11
Outpatient care	20,130	15
Physician office-based care	10,033	8
Emergency care	2,162	2
Ambulance services	146	0
Hospital outpatient care	3,315	3
Home healthcare	3,930	3
Hospice care	543	0
Outpatient medication and supplies	17,516	13
Outpatient medication	5,516	4
Insulin and delivery supplies	6,991	5
Oral agents	5,009	4
Indirect costs due to lost productivity	39,810	30
Lost work days	4,503	3
Restricted activity days	6,256	5
Mortality	21,558	16
Permanent disability	7,494	6
Total cost	131,672	100

Cost component percentages do not necessarily sum to category totals because of rounding.