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. 2015 Oct;12(10):1458–1464. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201503-173OC

Table 2.

Sensitivity of national pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial disease cases* and cost estimates to ICD-9 undercoding and proportion of patients aged <65 years

  Proportion of Cases Coded for Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease per ICD-9 (031.0)
Proportion of patients aged <65 yr 27% 50% 75%
 25% 79,344 ($749,890,795) 42,687 ($403,441,248) 28,458 ($268,960,832)
 31% 86,244 ($815,098,690) 46,399 ($438,523,095) 30,933 ($292,348,730)
 35% 91,551 ($865,258,610) 49,254 ($465,509,132) 32,836 ($310,339,421)

Definition of abbreviations: ICD-9 = International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision.

*

Case numbers reflect year 2010 estimates.

Costs are presented in constant 2014 dollars.