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Cost Savings

A primary objective of DTPHOPE is to allow providers to deliver high quality cost effecitve care. Below are several case studies that show how DTPHOPE saves money for the provider and the patient. These methods applied over large health care systems would translate in to signifant savings for providers.

CASE EXAMPLES

Case	Cost Using Current Practice	Savings Using DTPHOPE	Increased Profit Potential
CASE 1	$14,000	$8,000	$1,000
CASE 2	$6,000	$3,000	$700
CASE 3	$7,500	$4,000	$900

Estimated Costs with Savings and Profit Potentials

CASE 1 Current Practices - 50-year old lady who over a period of two months had a few episodes of dizziness, and trouble finding words. She then passed out while driving a car and was hospitalized in a coronary care unit at a good hospital. Exams were normal and she was discharged in four days. Six months later she experienced faint and weak episodes, leading to another four day coronary care unit hospitalization. Again, studies were normal and she was discharged. Two months later concentration difficulties increased. She had a neurological consultation as an outpatient. History and an electroencephalogram revealed a type of partial seizures explaining her fainting episodes and thinking problems. With medication for her symptoms (seizures), she improved.

New Paradigm - she could have phoned a triage screening program - and contacted the appropriate expert which could have prevented one or possibly even two hospitalizations and the great additional health problems and expense.

CASE 2 Current Practices - 34-year old lady with recurrent abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting and distress. She was followed for several years and underwent many laboratory studies, including a barium enema, an MRI of her abdomen, as well as numerous consultations. Primary diagnosis was intolerance to lactose (dairy) containing products. Symptoms relieved with special diet.

New Paradigm - Patient access to phone, FAX and interactive screening protocol could have suggested probable diagnosis and appropriate simple treatment trial years earlier.

CASE 3 Current Practices - 55-year old lady referred because of progressive depression over three years and slowly evolving trouble with memory, calculations. Consultations with internists, psychologists and psychiatrists, many medical studies, an MRI of the head - all recorded as normal. Past history revealed gastrectomy 20 years before for a bleeding ulcer. Unsuccessful treatment had been psychotherapy and then treatment for Alzheimer's disease.

NEW PARADIGM - Phone/fax screening recommended referral to a gastroenterologist and neurologist for recommendations. A blood B-12 test was ordered, and a presumptive correct diagnosis of B-12 deficiency secondary to malabsorption was made. Symptoms then responded to Vitamin B-12 injections.

With the new paradigm, using our consulting services we can provide the following savings to the payor and profits to our service as follows:

Estimated Costs with Savings and Profit Potentials