Executive Summary: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Providing Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (2006) / Chapter Skim
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Research Results Digest 75 January 2006 This digest contains information on the relative costs and benefits of providing transportation to non-emergency medical care for individuals who miss or delay healthcare appointments because of transportation issues. Paratransit operators and other transportation providers, legislative policy makers, and healthcare providers responsible for cost-effective transportation and healthcare decisions will find this digest of interest.
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• Estimate the cost of providing the transportation that this population would need to obtain medical transportation according to various transportation service needs and trip modes; • Estimate the healthcare costs and benefits that would result if these individuals obtained transportation to non-emergency medical care for key healthcare conditions prevalent for this population; and • Compare the relative costs (from transportation and routine healthcare) and benefits (such as improved quality of life and better managed care, leading to less emergency care)
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Based on the convention frequently cited in health economics literature, investments that provide one additional Quality Adjusted Life-Year (QALY) are valued at $50,000 (see Appendix C in TCRP WebOnly Document 29)
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• Is older (16.3 percent are 70 or older compared with 11.5 percent) ; and • Is distributed across urban and rural America much the same as the U.S.
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States. The ambulatory, wheelchair, and stretcher costs of various trip types were determined in both urban and rural locations.
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