Benchmarking the value of care: Variability in hospital costs for common operations and its association with procedure volume.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Efforts to improve health care value (quality/cost) have become a priority in the United States. Although many seek to increase quality by reducing variability in adverse outcomes, less is known about variability in costs. In conjunction with the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Healthcare Economics Committee, the objective of this study was to examine the extent of variability in total hospital costs for two common procedures: laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) and laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC).

Methods

Nationally weighted data for adults 18 years and older was obtained for patients undergoing each operation in the 2014 and 2016 National Inpatient Sample. Data were aggregated at the hospital-level to attain hospital-specific median index hospital co

SUBMITTER: Zogg CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7802807 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature