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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2014 Jul 3;371(1):91–93. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1404371

Table 1.

Infants, Preterm Infants, and the Societal Economic Burden of Preterm Births Conceived through Assisted Reproductive Technology in the United States (2010).*

State, District, or Territory Infants Conceived through Assisted Reproductive Technology
Total No. of Infants No. of Preterm Infants Societal Economic Burden Associated with Preterm Infants
2013 $
California 7,540 2,573 158,800,414
New York 6,258 2,008 123,929,744
Texas 4,347 1,998 123,312,564
New Jersey 3,803 1,420 87,639,560
Illinois 3,775 1,325 81,776,350
Massachusetts 3,480 1,035 63,878,130
Florida 2,402 994 61,347,692
Pennsylvania 2,162 754 46,535,372
Virginia 1,931 683 42,153,394
Maryland 1,856 602 37,154,236
Ohio 1,512 542 33,451,156
Michigan 1,460 527 32,525,386
North Carolina 1,455 557 34,376,926
Connecticut 1,404 463 28,575,434
Georgia 1,390 552 34,068,336
Washington 1,318 442 27,279,356
Minnesota 1,050 353 21,786,454
Colorado 994 417 25,736,406
Arizona 921 374 23,082,532
Indiana 705 308 19,009,144
Missouri 672 289 17,836,502
Wisconsin 568 215 13,269,370
Oregon 560 212 13,084,216
Iowa 541 199 12,281,882
Utah 522 237 14,627,166
South Carolina 521 226 13,948,268
Nevada 479 236 14,565,448
Tennessee 458 167 10,306,906
Kentucky 453 187 11,541,266
Louisiana 415 176 10,862,368
Oklahoma 369 170 10,492,060
Alabama 368 148 9,134,264
District of Columbia 337 103 6,356,954
Kansas 315 116 7,159,288
New Hampshire 288 68 4,196,824
Idaho 244 112 6,912,416
Rhode Island 239 80 4,937,440
Hawaii 236 111 6,850,698
New Mexico 229 89 5,492,902
Nebraska 210 94 5,801,492
Delaware 204 56 3,456,208
Arkansas 203 69 4,258,542
Mississippi 163 66 4,073,388
West Virginia 124 42 2,592,156
Montana 105 42 2,592,156
Other states and territories 533 201 12,405,318
Total 59,119 21,638 1,335,454,084
*

The state, district, or territory indicates the place of patient residency; in cases of missing residency data (4%), we used the place in which the assisted-reproductive-technology procedure was performed; states or territories with fewer than 100 infants conceived through assisted reproductive technology were included in the category for other states and territories. Data on all infants and preterm infants conceived through assisted reproductive technology are from Sunderam et al.3 Calculations of societal economic burden were based on an assumption of an average burden of $51,600 ($61,718 in 2013 U.S. dollars) per infant born preterm, in accordance with calculations from the Institute of Medicine.4