With
outpatient therapy costing up to $ 1,000 a day and hospital - based rehabilitation costing up to $ 8,000 a day, the direct and indirect costs of TBI is estimated at more than $ 76 billion a year.
Not exact matches
But the invisible
costs (that people don't think of until much later) are actually higher and occur after you leave the NICU:
outpatient visits, specialist visits, diagnostic testing,
therapy (physical, speech, occupational), medications, ER visits, re-hospitalization, surgeries.
The
costs in 2012 U.S. dollars included the
therapy,
outpatient services, hospitalization, emergency department visits, pharmacy services and nonmedical services, as well as indirect
costs such as losses in worker productivity.
Of those patients, 48 received two - to - three weekly
therapy sessions in
outpatient facilities with out - of - pocket
costs ranging from $ 10 - $ 60 per session for non-Medicare patients.
Outpatient individual counseling, family
therapy, support groups, financial education, and no -
cost evaluations.