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Table 3.

Other health-care costs during the 90-day post-discharge period

	Unit cost (US$)	Control group (N = 309)			Treatment group (N = 313)
	Unit cost (US$)	Cohort total number	Cohort total cost (US$)	Cost per subject (US$)	Cohort total number	Cohort total cost (US$)	Cost per subject (US$)
Hospital emergency room visits	975^a	87	84,809	274	78	76,035	243
Hospital outpatient visits	814^a	79	64,311	208	87	70,823	226
Primary care doctor visits	156^a	408	63,839	207	483	75,574	241
Medical specialist visits	223^a	340	75,949	246	323	72,152	231
Urgent care visits	176^a	4	705	2	9	1585	5
Other medical care visits	194^a	41	7942	26	63	12,203	39
Prescriptions	81^a	4191	337,711	1093	4477	360,757	1153
Rehabilitation
Inpatient day	1361^b	341	464,301	1503	350	476,556	1523
Outpatient visits	194^c	167	32,348	105	308	59,659	191
Inpatient stay	18,109^b	4	72,437	234	4	72,437	231
Long-term care facility
Length of stay (days)	359^b	195	69,993	227	165	59,225	189
Stays	9691^b	13	125,989	408	8	7532	248
Total			1,400,332	4532		1,414,537	4519

^aSources: For all entries in this table except for urgent care, cost estimates come from the 2012 Medical Panel Expenditure Survey (MEPS) database [17]. For urgent care, costs come from Mehrotra et al. [19]

^bCost estimate comes from Grabowski [20]

^cCost estimate comes from the 2012 Medical Panel Expenditure Survey (MEPS) database [18]