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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: Contraception. 2014 Jan 24;89(5):451–459. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2013.10.019

Table 3.

Health state costs, per annual cycle

Health state Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Comment
1 - Initial method
  LNG-IUS 13.5mg $929 $0 $0 3 year cycle repeated.
  SARC $601 $558 $558 Initial consultation assumed in Year 1.
2 - Unintended pregnancy1 $1713 $1713 $1713 Not time dependent.
3 - Subsequent method2 $402 $402 $402 Not time dependent.
1

Estimated as a weighted-average cost of live birth, spontaneous abortion, induced abortion and ectopic pregnancy (costs per outcome reported in Table 2) plus the cost of 5.76 months of subsequent contraceptive method costs as an UP is assumed to last 6.24 months of average (see Table 4); weights to determine age-specific probability of each outcome taken from published literature [14, 24].

2

Estimated for base case age group of 20–29 years as a weighted average of all costs associated with all available methods available on the market; weights based on data reported by the NSFG [7].