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Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2016 Jan 11;50(5 Suppl 1):S74–S80. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2015.10.012

Table 2.

Summary of Annual Averted Direct Costs and Cost Savings (2014 U.S. dollars)

Scenario	Number of live births averted	Total direct cost per birth with spina bifida averted (nearest $100)	Total direct cost averted (nearest $100,000)	Cost savings (reduction in direct costs, nearest $100,000)
Base-case	767	791,900	607.3 million	603.3 million
	767	577,000^a	442.4 million^a	438.4 million^a
Worst case	614	712,700	437.5 million	417.5 million
	614	519,300^a	318.8 million^a	298.8 million^a

Excluding caregiver time costs