Research Article
The Cost of Medicaid Savings: The Potential Detrimental Public Health Impact of Neonatal Circumcision Defunding
Table 2
Example calculation of black male expected heterosexually acquired HIV cases and cost; SC 2009 Medicaid birth cohort.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
a2009 SC medicaid birth cohort—black male population. bCDC HIV surveillance report statistics on diagnosis of HIV infection by race/ethnicity, gender, and transmission category (22.7% of black male HIV infections were reported as heterosexually transmitted). cSee Table 3 for explanation of factor calculation. dUsing Schackman et al’s discounted lifetime HIV treatment cost of $303,100 (in $US2004) inflated to $US2010 for a lifetime treatment cost of $377,360 per case. |