Women with Repeated Chest Pain and No Blockage Generate $767,288 in Lifetime Healthcare Costs
Jean is a perfect example. Her serious heart artery disease was not recognized. If women like Jean don’t receive optimal medical therapy (OMT), they continue to have pain, they return to the emergency room, and they continue to have repeated expensive tests. As a result, women like Jean, on average cost $767,288 each over their lifetime. That’s right, three quarters of a million dollars each because their disease is not recognized and they don’t receive the care they need. Looking at heart artery disease patients more broadly, OMT saves $21,900 per patient per year compared with usual care--the care most patients receive. OMT also completely relieves chest pain in over 70% of patients. Are you OK with missed diagnoses and exorbitant healthcare costs in women? I am not! Help make OMT available in your community. wbestermann@congruityhealth.com
Seems like a poster child example of the US health care system’s wastefulness.
I once again had chest pain last week. The pain was intermittent but lasted about 2 hours total. I waited on taking a nitroglycerin but once I did the pain was gone. I am so thankful for the opportunity to have the MCG test done.