Table 1.

Economic Cost Estimates for Fiscal Years 1996 and 1997 (1996 Dollars)

Outpatient Program	Fiscal Year	Average Length of Stay (Weeks)* [1]	Average Daily Census [2]	Total Annual Economic Cost ($) [3]	Weekly Economic Cost Per Client ($)[3]/ [2]/52=[4]	Economic Cost Per Treatment Episode ($)†[1]×[4]=[5]
Program 1	1996	4	254	1,116,491	85	338
	1997	4	280	985,698	68	271
Program 2	1996	4	165	620,826	72	289
	1997	4	165	573,697	67	267
Program 3	1996	4	200	608,325	58	234
	1997	4	200	605,032	58	233
Program	1996	4	206	781,187	72	288
average ‡	1997	4	214	720,117	64	228

^*Length of stay estimates were approximated from client records at each program.

^†Economic cost per treatment episode may not exactly equal the product of weekly cost per client and average length of stay due to rounding.

^‡Represents the weighted average of the three outpatient drug-free programs, where the weights are the number of clients at each program.