Autism Spectrum Disorders and Health Care Expenditures: The Effects of Co-Occurring Conditions

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) often have co-occurring conditions, but little is known on the effect of those conditions on their medical care cost. Medical expenditures attributable to ASDs among Medicaid-enrolled children were calculated, and the effects of 3 commonly co-occurring...

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Published in:	Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 2 - 8
Main Authors:	PEACOCK, Georgina, AMENDAH, Djesika, OUYANG, Lijing, GROSSE, Scott D
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Hagerstown, MD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2012 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
Subjects:	Adolescent Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - complications Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - economics Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - epidemiology Autism Biological and medical sciences Child Child clinical studies Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - complications Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - economics Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - epidemiology Child, Preschool Childrens health Comorbidity Developmental disorders Epilepsy - complications Epilepsy - economics Epilepsy - epidemiology Female Headache. Facial pains. Syncopes. Epilepsia. Intracranial hypertension. Brain oedema. Cerebral palsy Health care expenditures Health Expenditures - classification Humans Infant Infantile autism Intellectual Disability - complications Intellectual Disability - economics Intellectual Disability - epidemiology Male Medicaid Medicaid - economics Medical sciences Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes) Nervous system as a whole Neurology Pediatrics Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Registries United States - epidemiology United States North America America United States > US Health insurance Nervous system diseases cost health care use Epilepsy Use Developmental disorder Health service Cerebral disorder Autism Hyperkinesia Pervasive developmental disorder Convulsion expenditures Central nervous system disease Expenditure seizures Id Neurological disorder Medicaid autism spectrum disorder Psychomotor disorder Public health hyperkinetic syndrome
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