Child Abuse Takes a Toll on Medicaid

"On average, children who were maltreated or were at risk for maltreatment had Medicaid expenditures more than $2,600 higher annually than children who were not subject to or at risk for maltreatment, according to Curtis Florence, PhD, of the CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control in Atlanta.

"Compared with nonmaltreated children, costs were higher for psychiatric, inpatient hospital, and outpatient and clinical care of maltreated children, Florence and colleagues wrote online in the journal Pediatrics...."

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/DomesticViolence/40180

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