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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: S D Med. 2021 Feb;74(2):70–74.

Table 4.

Standardized cost calculation treating 100 patients with pe and resulting CPH.

Value description CDT Heparin

Patients 100 100
Approximate difference in the cost to treat for initial hospitalization per
patient
$31k -
Difference in the initial cost to treat (hospitalization) $3.1 M -
Rate of pulmonary HTN 63% 15.9%
Cost per year to treat CPH $100k $100k
Cost to treat 100 patients with CPH per year $630k $1.59M
Cost to treat 100 patients with CPH over 5 years $3.15M $7.95M

Difference in the 5-year total cost to treat $6.25M $7.95M

(Costs recorded are USD, k=1,000 USD and M=1,000,000 USD)