What Cost of Cerebral Palsy Treatment

Every day there will be over ten of CP kids or children who are taken by their parents, mother or father or both to come to visit our stem cell treatment for seeking some hope on improving the CP children’s current medical condition.I don’t know the cost of cerebral palsy in our country. But I read about one article on it and share here to you.
One commonly quoted study detailing the cost of cerebral palsy treatment in the U.S. was published by The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on January 30, 2004 and titled, “Economic Costs Associated with Mental Retardation, Cerebral Palsy, Hearing Loss, and Vision Impairment – United States, 2003.”
The article reports “lifetime costs in 2003 dollars are expected to total $51.2 billion for persons born in 2000 with mental retardation, $11.5 billion for persons with cerebral palsy, $1.9 billion for persons with hearing loss, and $2.6 billion for persons with vision impairment.”
Of the $11.5 billion expense for persons with cerebral palsy:
• Indirect costs – 80.6%, or $9.241 billion, accounts for indirect expenses such as productivity loss due to inability to work; limitation in the amount or type of work; and premature mortality
• Direct medical costs – 10.2%, or $1.175 billion, includes physician visits, prescription medications, in-patient hospital stays, assistive devices, therapies, rehabilitation, and long-term care
• Direct non-medical costs – 9.2%, or $1.054 billion, includes such expenses special education, home and automobile modifications

The study, a collaborative effort between the CDC and RTI International, examines direct and indirect medical expenses associated with developmental disabilities. The study was based on 2003 dollars for individuals born with developmental disabilities (DD) in the year 2000.