Table 5.

Costs associated with the racial disparity in preterm birth between non-Hispanic Blacks and non-Hispanic Whites in the 2003 Michigan singleton birth cohort

	Expected lifetime cost of the 1,184 excess Black preterm births	Expected lifetime cost if the 1,184 births were born at term	Cost of racial disparity in preterm birth	Sensitivity analysis on the cost of racial disparity in preterm birth
Initial hospitalization at birth	$36,322,800	$7,552,544	$28,770,256	$23,638,788 - $33,901,737
Productivity loss due to perinatal death	$227,892,229	$2,873,589	$225,018,640	$112,509,320 - $337,527,960
Developmental disabilities	$87,412,764	$12,440,062	$74,972,702	$12,093,290 - $227,000,571
Total	$351,627,793	$22,866,195	$328,761,598	$148,241,398 - $598,430,267

Costs reported in inflation adjusted 2007 U.S. dollars.