Table 2. Direct medical costs and drug costs of outpatients and inpatients with Parkinson’s disease.
| Item | Outpatient visits | Inpatient admission episodes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost per year (%) | Cost per visita | Cost per year (%) | Cost per episodeb | ||
| Total medical cost | 10,263,118.09 (100.00) | 1,483.68 | 6,437,186.31 (100.00) | 46,168.34 | |
| Medicine | 10,044,433.66 (97.82) | 1,472.09 | 1,523,360.71 (23.33) | 10,985.77 | |
| Non-pharmacological treatment | 14,038.13 (0.14) | 80.81 | 1,074,869.49 (16.17) | 7,646.43 | |
| Diagnosis | 178,990.10 (1.78) | 556.69 | 676,691.39 (10.60) | 4,879.99 | |
| Disposable equipment | 24,387.24 (0.25) | 83.46 | 2,015,620.30 (31.42) | 18,896.44 | |
| Medical service | 1,268.96 (0.01) | 23.96 | 1,146,644.42 (18.48) | 6,270.71 | |
| Total drug cost | 10,044,433.66 (100.00) | 1,523,360.71 (100.00) | |||
| Western medicine | |||||
| For managing PD | 6,074,519.85 (60.48) | 952.50 | 41,104.23 (2.70) | 564.90 | |
| For PD-related complications | 1,143,266.90 (11.38) | 723.70 | 10,685.45 (0.70) | 326.20 | |
| For managing comorbidities | 2,437,353.83 (24.27) | 517.70 | 1,462,990.06 (96.04) | 7,994.48 | |
| Subtotal | 9,655,140.57 (96.12) | 1,420.20 | 1,514,779.73 (99.44) | 14,303.20 | |
| Traditional Chinese medicine | |||||
| Chinese patent medicines | 388,000.37 (3.86) | 293.94 | 8,190.59 (0.54) | 158.09 | |
| Chinese herbal medicines | 1,292.73 (0.01) | 55.63 | 390.38 (0.03) | 204.95 | |
| Subtotal | 389,293.09 (3.88) | 293.10 | 8,580.95 (0.56) | 229.80 | |
All the cost was presented in Chinese yuan (in 2018, 6.88 Chinese yuan equaled 1 United States dollar). a, cost each outpatient visit; b, cost per hospital admission episode. PD, Parkinson’s disease.