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Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2013 Apr;44(4 0 4):10.1016/j.amepre.2012.12.016. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2012.12.016

Table 2.

Per capita direct medical costs of the Healthy Living Partnerships to Prevent Diabetes usual care condition

	Provider	Units^a	Subjects (%)	Time (hours)^b	Unit Cost ($)	Total Cost ($)^c
1st-visit counseling	RD	0.95	100.0	1.00	30.77	29
Materials		1.00	100.0		21.15	21
2nd-visit counseling	RD	0.82	100.0	0.75	30.77	19
Monthly Newsletter		24.00	100.0		1.73	42
Reminder Calls	RD	2.00	99.5	0.08	32.00	5
Overhead (48% of personnel)						26
Total Cost (Years 1 and 2)						142

Units calculated a total number of sessions completed or materials distributed divided by the total number of participants in the usual care condition group.

Time represents the portion of 1 hour needed to provide one unit of each resource.

Total cost per participant is arrived at by multiplying “units”, “subjects”, “time”, and “unit cost.”

RD, registered dietician