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Volume 30, Number 9—September 2024
Research

Medical Costs of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease, South Korea, 2015–2019

Shihwan Chang1, Sol Kim1, Young Ae Kang, Moo Suk Park, Hojoon Sohn2, and Youngmok Park2Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea (S. Chang, S. Kim, Y.A. Kang, M.S. Park, Y. Park); Severance Hospital, Seoul (S. Chang, S. Kim, Y.A. Kang, M.S. Park, Y. Park); Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul (H. Sohn); Seoul National University Institute of Health Policy and Management, Seoul (H. Sohn)

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Table 5

Analysis of cumulative cost based on causative species in study of medical costs of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease, South Korea, 2015–2019*

Variable Costs, median (interquartile range)
Mycobacterium avium complex, n = 112 M. abscessus, n = 15 p value
All visits
Total 4,557 (3,334–7,086) 19,190 (9,914–26,219) <0.001
Medication 1,069 (614–1,799) 2,767 (2,441–4,225) <0.001
Diagnostic tests 2,830 (2,078–4,055) 5,726 (3,334–11,190) <0.001
Clinical services
 541 (377–930)
 6,093 (4,263–11,972)
 <0.001
Outpatient visits
Total 3,859 (2,960–5,124) 3,300 (3,016–4,278) 0.492
Medication 976 (543–1,645) 983 (738–1,466) 0.823
Diagnostic tests 2,292 (1,805–3,060) 1,863 (1,650–2,480) 0.110
Clinical services
 444 (347–564)
 506 (318–643)
 0.399
Admissions†
Total 1,710 (933–7,747) 14,197 (6,711–22,521) <0.001
Medication 61 (20–516) 1,784 (1,456–3,153) <0.001
Diagnostic tests 998 (653–4,793) 3,093 (1,590–9,867) 0.024
Clinical services 556 (147–1,863) 5,639 (3,847–11,439) <0.001

*Currency in US $, rounded to the nearest dollar. †M. avium complex n = 45.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These authors were co–principal investigators.

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