Table 4.

Medical Expenses by Cohort and Fracture Type

• Disease-Coded^a and Total, 2002
• National Estimates, Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey

			Disease-codeda		Total Expenses
Cohort and Fracture Type b	n c	Percent of Cohort	Mean Expense	Std Error	Mean Expense	Std Error
Fracture	497	100%	$4,420	$435	$27,730	$1,360
Hip/femur	166	33%	9,600	990	39,620	2,660
Spine	73	15%	2,400	590	24,660	590
Lower Extremity	71	14%	2,580	760	15,890	2,000
Shoulder/humerus	35	7%	2,560	980	22,940	4,110
Other	152	30%	980	240	22,840	1,910
Osteoporosis	2,196	100%	280	12	9,850	395
Control	6,489	100%	0	0	8,480	295

(Numbers rounded)

^aClaims with procedures, primary diagnosis codes, or medications for fractures or osteoporosis. Does not include long-term and hospice care expenses, as no procedure or diagnosis codes were available for these events

^bPatients with multiple fractures were assigned to one type in the order hip/femur, spine, lower extremity, shoulder/humerus, other.)

^cMCBS national population weights for respondents normalized to MCBS sample size of 12,697.