Open AccessCost analysis of 163 consecutive heart transplant operationsin an Indian setting
Author(s) -
K. Balakrishnan,
Coimbatore Nageswaran
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery/indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 0973-7723
pISSN - 0970-9134
DOI - 10.1007/s12055-020-00996-z
Subject(s) - medicine , activity based costing , indirect costs , total cost , cardiothoracic surgery , emergency medicine , cardiac surgery , health economics , reimbursement , estimation , heart transplantation , health care , vascular surgery , surgery , transplantation , public health , accounting , nursing , management , marketing , economics , business , microeconomics , economic growth
Heart transplantation has become an established procedure in India with increasing numbers being done annually. The majority of these patients are very sick with a history of multiple hospital admissions. The economic burden of such therapy is substantial and the costs are borne by the patients with very little insurance coverage. The objective of this study was to estimate the following:The average cost of a heart transplant procedure in a "real-world setting" in a private healthcare facility in India, with varying patient risk profiles.Identify the factors contributing to the wide variations in cost seen in practice.Finally, based on data thus collected, can some kind of estimation be made about the expected cost in a given patient before the operation is done?