FACTS: (2013 Brain Injury Awareness Fact Sheet)
The costs to treat brain injuries are staggering:
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- A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a blow, jolt, or bump to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain.
- 1.7 million people, including 475,000 children, sustain a TBI in the U.S. each year. 3.1 million individuals live with live-long disability as a result of TBI.
- 52,000 people will die. 275,000 people will be hospitalized. 1.365 million people will be treated and released from an emergency department.
- TBIs are caused by falls (35%), car crashes (17%), workplace accidents (16%), assaults (10%), and other (21%).
- TBI is a contributing factor to a third (30.5%) of all injury-related deaths in the United States.
- About 75% of TBIs that occur each year are concussions or other forms of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI).
- Just as no two people are exactly alike, no two brain injuries are exactly alike. For some, brain injury is the start of a lifelong disease process. The injury requires access to a full continuum of medically necessary treatment and community-based supports furnished by interdisciplinary teams of qualified and specialized clinicians working in accredited programs and appropriate settings.
The costs to treat brain injuries are staggering:
- Average hospital-based acute rehab is about $8,000 per day
- Range for post-acute residential is about $850 to $2,500 per day
- Day treatment programs (e.g., 4 hours of therapy) are about $600 to $1,000 with no room/board
- According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the U.S., direct medical costs and indirect costs of TBI, such as lost productivity, totaled an estimated $76.3 billion each year
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