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Integrated Care Matters
Integrated healthcare matters. It is not just the cost of initial care, the follow-on costs of treatment, lost time and disability lead to a drag on productivity.
Healthcare treatment programs that do not take into account the costs associated with lost productivity can lose a multiple of the original costs of care for an illness or injury.
Integration of care: treatment, recovery, retraining and of course, avoidance of illness and injury can save any company four five times the costs of initial diagnoses and treatment
Disease |
Reported cases* |
Treatment cost |
Value of lost productivity |
Total economic expense |
Cancer |
10.6 million |
$48.1 billion |
$271.2 billion |
$319.3 billion |
Hypertension |
36.8 million |
32.5 billion |
279.5 billion |
312 billion |
Mental disorders |
30.3 million |
45.8 billion |
170.9 billion |
216.7 billion |
Heart disease |
19.1 million |
64.7 billion |
104.6 billion |
169.3 billion |
Pulmonary conditions |
49.2 million |
45.2 billion |
93.7 billion |
138.9 billion |
Diabetes |
13.7 million |
27.1 billion |
104.7 billion |
131.8 billion |
Stroke |
2.4 million |
13.6 billion |
22.1 billion |
35.7 billion |
Source: The Milken Institute's "Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease" relied on data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (2003), U.S. Census Bureau, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the National Health Interview Survey.
