Table 2. Cost data used in model.

All costs are reported in year 2002 adjusted U.S. dollars. See text for derivation of costs.

	Monthly Costs	Monthly Cost Range*
Baseline Health State Costs
Baseline average monthly outpatient costs for patient with compensated cirrhosis	63	31-126
Baseline average monthly costs for subjects with permanent contraindication to transplant	777	389-1554
Baseline average monthly costs for recipients post transplantation	772	386-1544
Cost Tolls for Specific Events
Average cost of TIPS procedure. Includes revisions, complications, hospitalizations, imaging, and outpatient follow-up	18,192	9,096-36,384
Average cost of an episode of SBP. Includes treatment, hospitalization, complications, and imaging	10,248	5,124-20,496
Average cost of ascites and peripheral edema requiring admission to the hospital	6,197	3,098-12,394
Average cost of encephalopathy admission.	4,297	2,148-8,594
Average monthly cost of HCC. Includes imaging, procedures, and follow-up	3,755	1,877-7,510
Average cost of variceal bleeding. Includes hospitalization, procedures, and follow-up	11,964	5,892-23,928
One-time cost of DDLT procedure. Includes deceased donor expenses and organ acquisition costs from OPO, hospitalization, and pharmacy (126).	103,806	51,903-207,612
One-time cost of LDLT procedure. Includes workup costs for 1.23 potential donors (49, 50), donor procedure without complications, hospitalization, and pharmacy (126). Donor costs are normalized to DDLT OPO charges to avoid double-charging living donors. The actual estimated costs for one time live donor procedure without complications is $129,144 (see text).	103,806	51,903-207,612
One-time cost for donor having major complications. Includes hospitalization, procedures, pharmacy, and follow-up.	16,892	8,446-33,784
One-time cost for donor death. Estimated at 75% of the cost of a major complication.	12,669	6,335-25,338
One-time cost for recurrent disease causing graft failure. This is only applied to subjects not eligible for re-transplantation. Based on costs incurred for care when transplant is contraindicated.	4,662	2,331-9,324
Average cost for post-transplant subjects with non-biliary infectious complications. Includes hospitalization, imaging, pharmacy, and follow-up.	6,952	3,476-13,904
Average cost for post transplant recipients that require non-transplant re-operation. Based on the cost of laparotomy.	16,892	8,446-33,784
Average cost for post-transplant subjects with clinically significant biliary complications. Includes cost associated with chronic biliary strictures, and 2 ERCP’s. (104)	7,292	3,646-14,584
One-time cost of post-transplant recipients that require non-transplant reoperation for biliary complication. Does not include ERCP costs. Based on the cost of laparotomy.	18,607	9,303-37,214
Average cost of post-transplant treatment of acute rejection. Includes hospitalization, procedures, pharmacy, and follow-up.	6,798	3,339-13,596

^*Ranges are derived as 50% and 200% of calculated costs.