Immunizations

Study says chickenpox shots lead to $100 million drop in hospitalization costs

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, September 28th, 2004

Vaccinating children against chickenpox saves the U.S. healthcare system nearly $100 million a year in reduced hospitalizations for severe cases of the disease, a study found.

Though most people who get the usually mild disease can be treated at home, chickenpox can be serious, and complications requiring hospitalization can include severe skin infections, encephalitis and pneumonia.

In 1993, 2 years before the government licensed the vaccine for routine use in early childhood, nearly 14,000 Americans were hospitalized for chickenpox-related complications at a cost of $161 million, compared with 3,729 hospitalizations and $66 million in related costs...

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