National Trends in Healthcare Expenditures for the Management of Skin Cancer in the United States.

• Tác giả: An-Wen Chan, Matthew T James, Bryan Ma, P Régine Mydlarski
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 285.83 Specific denominations centered in the United States
• Thông tin xuất bản: United States : Journal of cutaneous medicine and surgery , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 59628

Tóm tắt

BACKGROUND: Malignant melanoma and keratinocyte carcinomas account for a substantial proportion of healthcare expenditures in the United States. OBJECTIVE: To estimate trends in the economic burden of skin cancer in the United States between 1996 and 2016. METHODS: The Disease Expenditure Project and Global Burden of Disease databases were used to estimate annual total costs and population-standardized rates of change for skin cancer-related healthcare spending. RESULTS: Skin cancer expenditures totaled 3.4 billion in 2016, of which .4 billion (95% CI: .3-.6 billion) was melanoma-related and 2 billion (95% CI: 8-8 billion) was keratinocyte carcinoma-related. Most spending on skin cancer management occurred in ambulatory care settings [60.7% (95% CI: 57.7%-64.3%) for melanoma and 87.8% (95% CI: 87.2%-88.2%) for keratinocyte carcinoma]. Pharmaceutical costs for melanoma have increased since 2010 to 65 million (95% CI: 27-16 million), which represents 26.1% (95% CI: 22.6%-29.3%) of total melanoma expenditure. CONCLUSIONS: Skin cancer management in the United States is costly. Expenditures have increased substantially since 1996 without signs of plateauing in recent years.