Estimating the Direct Medical Outpatient Costs of Diagnosis and Treatment of Trichomoniasis Among Commercially Insured Patients in the United States, 2016 to 2018

Sex Transm Dis. 2021 Mar 1;48(3):e45-e47. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001266.

Abstract

We used 2016-2018 outpatient claims data to calculate direct outpatient medical costs per case of trichomoniasis in 2019 US dollars. The outpatient, drug, and total costs per treated case of trichomoniasis were $174, $39, and $213, respectively. Total costs were higher for female patients ($220) than for male patients ($158).

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Ambulatory Care
  • Databases, Factual
  • Female
  • Health Care Costs
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Outpatients*
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Trichomonas Infections* / diagnosis
  • Trichomonas Infections* / drug therapy
  • Trichomonas Infections* / epidemiology
  • United States / epidemiology