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Document 0880
DOCN M9620880
TI The cost of comprehensive preventive medical services for adolescents.
DT 9602
AU Gans JE; Alexander B; Chu RC; Elster AB; Department of Adolescent
Health, American Medical Association,; Chicago, Ill, USA.
SO Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1995 Nov;149(11):1226-34. Unique Identifier :
AIDSLINE MED/96049016
AB OBJECTIVES: To address the need for clinical preventive services for 11-
to 21-year-old males and females and provide cost estimates for those
services under a fee-for-service system. Preventive services include
screening, health promotion, and immunizations. DESIGN: The prevalence
of adolescent morbidities was derived from national surveys. Estimated
costs of these morbidities were obtained from published data and
adjusted for 1992 dollars using the Consumer Price Index. The estimated
costs of preventive services for adolescents under a fee-for-service
system were derived from a 1993 survey of nine Blue Cross and Blue
Shield plans and four insurance companies. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The
cost of adolescent morbidities includes only direct medical costs for a
single year and excludes long-term and indirect costs. The cost of
clinical preventive services is calculated at 100% participation levels.
RESULTS: Each year, an estimated $33.5 billion is spent on medical
treatment for select adolescent morbidities, approximately $859 per
adolescent per year; this is a conservative estimate. The average cost
of clinical preventive services per adolescent per year would be
approximately $130 in a fee-for-service system, although these are not
entirely new costs because payers already incur screening costs for some
conditions. CONCLUSION: The cost-effectiveness of clinical interventions
for various health risk behaviors among adolescents is unknown. It
appears that preventive interventions would have to eliminate 15% of
adolescent morbidities overall to break even in economic terms.
DE Accidents, Traffic/PREVENTION & CONTROL Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome/PREVENTION & CONTROL Adolescence Adolescent
Medicine/*ECONOMICS Alcoholism/PREVENTION & CONTROL Child
Comprehensive Health Care/*ECONOMICS/UTILIZATION Female Health
Promotion Health Surveys Human HIV Seropositivity/TRANSMISSION
Immunization Male Mental Health Services/STANDARDS/UTILIZATION
Pregnancy Pregnancy in Adolescence Preventive Health
Services/*ECONOMICS/UTILIZATION Risk-Taking Sexually Transmitted
Diseases/PREVENTION & CONTROL Support, Non-U.S. Gov't JOURNAL ARTICLE
REVIEW REVIEW, TUTORIAL
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).