Chronic Disease Cost Calculator

The Chronic Disease Cost Calculator is a downloadable tool that supports states in:

1. Estimating state Medicaid expenditures for six chronic diseases – congestive heart failure, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, cancer, and diabetes.
2. Generating estimates of the costs to Medicaid of selected chronic diseases using customized inputs (e.g., prevalence rates and treatment costs).

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Time frame: (as of June 2010) Estimated spending in the Cost Calculator is based on 2001–2005 data inflated forward to 2007 dollars.

Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/calculator/