Table 3.

Mean Costs by Comorbid Condition for VA Patients with Heart Failure in FY2010, N=117,870

Chronic conditions	Mean Cost
Hypertension	$34,179
Ischemic heart disease	$36,300
Diabetes	$35,504
Rental failure	$52,385
Depression	$41,803
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder	$42,440
Drug use disorder	$59,486
Alcohol use disorder	$48,401
Other Psychiatric disorders	$53,536
Alzheimer’s disease	$36,116

^*Costs were obtained from a generalized linear model with a Poisson distribution and a log link function.