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Estimated Direct and Indirect
Cost of Stroke, 1997
In 1997, the annual economic costs of stroke
(all types) in the United States were estimated to total $40.9
billion, according to data from the National Center for Health
Statistics and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
(NHLBI).
More than half of this sum was comprised of
direct health care expenses including hospital/nursing home
($21.6 billion), physician/other professionals ($1.9 billion),
drugs ($0.3 billion), and home health/other medical durables
($2.4 billion).
The remaining $14.7 billion represented indirect
costs, including lost productivity/morbidity ($ 5 billion),
and lost productivity/mortality (ie, lost future earnings
of persons who will die in 1997 discounted at 6%; $9.7 billion).
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Stroke Education
