Table 27: Total Annual Costs of CXL for Keratoconus – Estimated Physician, Clinic and Medication Costs*.
| Description | Existing cases (Prevalence) |
New cases (Incidence) |
Average annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of patients | |||
| Number of CXL keratoconus cases | 4,047 | 148 | 1,497 |
| Total cost - 1 eye per patient | |||
| Physician costs | $2.71M | $0.10M | $1.00M |
| Clinic costs | $1.10M | $0.04M | $0.41M |
| Medication costs | $0.39M | $0.01M | $0.14M |
| Total cost | $4.19M | $0.15M | $1.55M |
| Total cost - 2 eyes per patient | |||
| Physician costs | $4.12M | $0.15M | $1.52M |
| Clinic costs | $2.20M | $0.08M | $0.81M |
| Medication costs | $0.77M | $0.03M | $0.29M |
| Total cost | $7.08M | $0.26M | $2.62M |
| Average total cost | |||
| Physician costs | $3.41M | $0.13M | $1.26M |
| Clinic costs | $1.65M | $0.06M | $0.61M |
| Medication costs | $0.58M | $0.02M | $0.21M |
| Total cost | $5.64M | $0.21 M | $2.09M |
*
M indicates million