Payer costs of patients diagnosed with epilepsy.

Journal article

PURPOSE: To identify the annual cost to a third-party payer of inpatient and outpatient services and prescription drugs for patients diagnosed with epilepsy or convulsions. METHODS: Retrospective study using administrative and claims data from a private insurer in the Northeast United States with >1.8 million covered lives. Health plan members were included if they had a claim for epilepsy or convulsions and a claim for an antiepileptic drug (AED) between January 1992 and December 1996. An...

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Authors: Griffiths, R; Schrammel, P; Morris, G; Wills, S; Labiner, D

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
• Journal: Epilepsia
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 351-358
• Publication date: 1999-03-01
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb00717.x
• EISSN: 1528-1167
• ISSN: 0013-9580
• Language: English
• Keywords: Drug Costs; Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; Adult; Ambulatory Care; Hospital Costs; Male; Hospitalization; Humans; Female; Anticonvulsants; Middle Aged; Comorbidity; Epilepsy; Retrospective Studies; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; Costs and Cost Analysis; Health Care Costs; Cohort Studies