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Table 4 All-cause annual healthcare-related cost and pharmacy-related cost in patients with rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis by year

From: Exploring drug utilization patterns, healthcare resource utilization, and epidemiology of rheumatoid arthritis in Colombia: a retrospective claims database study

 

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

Average all-cause annual healthcare-related cost

Cost for all patients in USD PPP

      

Consultation’s cost

$ 25,142,401

$ 16,732,917

$ 22,467,111

$ 36,744,756

$ 36,391,280

$ 23,031,841

Hospital admission cost *

$ 468,975

$ 603,419

$ 561,457

$ 527,825

$ 403,622

$ 354,403

Procedures cost **

$ 2,860,200

$ 6,750,821

$ 5,562,834

$ 11,490,856

$ 5,266,869

$ 6,356,080

Imaging procedures ***

$ 268,268

$ 696,295

$ 333,560

$ 306,268

$ 360,065

$ 315,420

Laboratories ****

$ 68,896

$ 694,942

$ 205,336

$ 183,396

$ 211,448

$ 213,861

Cost per patient in USD PPP

      

Consultation cost

$ 266

$ 155

$ 163

$ 310

$ 262

$ 183

Hospital admission cost *

$ 566

$ 549

$ 440

$ 629

$ 364

$ 282

Procedures cost**

$30

$63

$40

$97

$38

$ 51

Imaging procedures ***

$3

$6

$2

$3

$3

$3

Laboratories ****

$1

$6

$1

$2

$2

$2

Cost USD PPP all patients

$ 28,471,575

$ 24,087,158

$ 28,591,402

$ 48,763,437

$ 42,061,770

$ 29,742,324

Cost USD PPP per patient

$ 301

$ 224

$ 208

$ 412

$ 303

$ 237

Pharmacy-related cost

Cost in USD PPP

      

csDMARDs

$ 14,922,141

$ 19,642,704

$ 10,067,161

$ 13,259,536

$ 18,031,917

-

bDMARDs

$ 62,966,462

$ 59,518,949

$ 78,743,927

$ 56,044,637

$ 52,710,269

-

tsDMARDs

$ 562,121,936

$ 909,584,806

$ 783,945,643

$ 586,423,485

$ 456,959,438

-

Steroids

$ 299,627

$ 145,992

$ 281,198

$ 228,523

$ 435,472

-

Costs in USD PPP all patients

$ 640,310,165

$ 988,892,450

$ 873,037,929

$ 655,956,180

$ 528,137,096

-

Costs in USD PPP per patient

$6,777

$9,179

$6,350

$5,539

$3,805

-

  1. csDMARDs: conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs; bDMARDs: biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs; tsDMARDs: targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs; USD PPP: United States Dollars purchasing power parities
  2. *Total cost divided by the total number of patients who were hospitalized each year, **All procedures with ICD-10 codes M053, M058, M059, M060, M068, M069, ***imaging procedures including, articular ultrasound, X-ray and magnetic resonance image), ****Laboratories including, rheumatoid Factor and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibod