Estimating the Direct Medical Outpatient Costs of Diagnosis and Treatment of Trichomoniasis Among Commercially Insured Patients in the United States, 2016 to 2018

Kumar, Sagar; Chesson, Harrell; Gift, Thomas L.

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Estimating the Direct Medical Outpatient Costs of Diagnosis and Treatment of Trichomoniasis Among Commercially Insured Patients in the United States, 2016 to 2018

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3 01 2021
By Kumar, Sagar ; Chesson, Harrell ; Gift, Thomas L.

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Alternative Title:

Sex Transm Dis
Personal Author:

Kumar, Sagar ; Chesson, Harrell ; Gift, Thomas L.
Description:

We used 2016-2018 outpatient claims data to calculate direct outpatient medical costs per case of trichomoniasis in 2019 US dollars. The outpatient, drug, and total costs per treated case of trichomoniasis were $174, $39, and $213, respectively. Total costs were higher for female patients ($220) than for male patients ($158).
Subjects:

Ambulatory Care Article Databases, Factual Female Health Care Costs Humans Male Outpatients Retrospective Studies Trichomonas Infections United States
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Sex Transm Dis. 48(3):e45-e47
Pubmed ID:

32810026
Pubmed Central ID:

PMC9425440
Document Type:

Journal Article
Funding:

CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
Volume:

48
Issue:

3
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CDC Public Access
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