FROM: Sturgess, Frances Coulter TO:[log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] SUBJECT: Kaiser study, question for Suzanne DATE: 07-11-97 18:42 EST PRIORITY: wah! they finally published the Kaiser/1400$ per breastfed infant saved study BUT IT ONLY SHOWS A 200$ saving now...after all the reanalysis I guess and a lot of caveats that indicate a need for further study. THey did say that if the current rate @ 6 mo (17%) went up to the Healthy People 2000 rate of 50$, their particular HMO would save 140,000$ per year as 700 more infants would be breastfed. Suzanne Haydu, do you have any ideas on why the change? I wouldn/t be so disappointed except that the preliminary preliminary results (posted to the WEB last year) were so much grander. FYI it is in Vol 3 # 6 of the American Journal of Mdanaged Care, Economic Advantages of breast-Feeding in an HMO Setting: a Pilot Study by Christine Hoey, RN IBCLC and Julie L. Ware MD IBCLC