Mahima T Kumara, Rebecca J Cleveland, Aleksandra M Kostic, Serena E Weisner, Kelli D Allen, Yvonne M Golightly, Heather Welch, Melissa Dale, Stephen P Messier, David J Hunter, Jeffrey N Katz, Leigh F Callahan, Elena Losina
OBJECTIVE: Walk With Ease (WWE) is an effective low-cost walking program. We estimated the budget impact of implementing WWE in persons with knee osteoarthritis (OA) as a measure of affordability that can inform payers' funding decisions. METHODS: We estimated changes in two-year healthcare costs with and without WWE. We used the Osteoarthritis Policy (OAPol) Model to estimate per-person medical expenditures. We estimated total and per-member-per-month (PMPM) costs of funding WWE for a hypothetical insurance plan with 75,000 members under two conditions: 1) all individuals aged 45+ with knee OA eligible for WWE, and 2) inactive and insufficiently active individuals aged 45+ with knee OA eligible...
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