Table 3.

Cost estimates.

	Baseline	Quoted references
Usual care
Per CHF hospitalization cost	$12,000	$12.7K [19], $11K [20], 10.9K [21], 12K–18K [22]
Annual CHF outpatient cost	$1,700	$680–2700 [11]
Annual non-CHF healthcare cost	$10,000	$7300–13000 [11]
Telehealth
Install/uninstall cost amortized to each month	$15	Based on field experts estimate
Monthly monitoring cost	$80	Based on field experts estimate
Case manager cost per patient per month	$125	Based on average nurse salary, assuming 75 patients are covered by one nurse
Total monthly TEST cost	$220
Physician contact/medication initialization cost per detected episode	$52	Based on physician verbal order time and new medication cost
Nurse home visit cost per detected episode	$135	Based on field experts estimate
Total TREAT cost per episode	$187