Disease burden and related medical costs of rotavirus infections in Taiwan

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 3 National health insurance reimbursements and co-pays for children <5 years old with various acute gastroenteritis ICD-9-CM codes in Taiwan in 2001.

Sectors	Medical costs (in US $) for various acute gastroenteritis associated ICD-9-CM^a
	001	002	003	004	005	007	008	009	558.9	787.91	Total	Average^b
Outpatient	5,237	8,905	394,497	7,012	10,828	5,636	350,178	5,706,479	11,900,784	5,636	18,395,192	10.8
Inpatient	0	3,353	1,986,493	30,337	8,383	0	2,800,989	2,413,857	15,018,609	3,668	22,265,691	336.0
Total	5,237	12,259	2,380,991	37,349	19,211	5,636	3,151,167	8,120,336	26,919,393	9,304	40,660,883	-

^a ICD-9-CM: International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision, Clinical Modification. 002, typhoid and paratyphoid fever; 003, salmonellosis [excluding 003.2 (localized Salmonella infections)]; 004, shigellosis; 005, other food poisoning (bacterial); 007, other protozoan intestinal diseases; 008, intestinal infections caused by other organisms; 0086, enteritis due to specified virus; 00861, rotavirus; 009, ill-defined intestinal infections; 558.9, other and unspecified noninfectious gastroenteritis and colitis; 787.91, diarrhoea. There were no cases with the ICD-9-CM of 006 (amoebiasis) in this age group.
^b Total medical costs divided by total case numbers (1,704,000 for outpatients and 66,260 for inpatients) (See Table 1 for details).

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