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The Cost of Prematurity - A Different Perspective: Or, How to Raise Health Care Costs Without Really Trying

Marianne Udow-Phillips

Posted by Marianne Udow-Phillips on April 4, 2011

In November 2010 we released an issue brief on the cost of prematurity in Michigan. In that issue brief we noted that in 2008/2009, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan spent a total of more than $46 million on preterm infants in the first year of life. The average cost of medical care for a preterm baby in its first year of life was almost $42,000, compared to just over $4,000 for a full-term infant. In 2007, the March of Dimes published similar national numbers that set the medical cost of a preterm birth at $49,000.

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