Open AccessBenchmarking the value of care: Variability in hospital costs for common operations and its association with procedure volume
Author(s) -
Cheryl K. Zogg,
Andrew C. Bernard,
Sameer Hirji,
Joseph P. Minei,
Kristan Staudenmayer,
Kimberly A. Davis
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journal of trauma and acute care surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.25
H-Index - 187
eISSN - 2163-0763
pISSN - 2163-0755
DOI - 10.1097/ta.0000000000002611
Subject(s) - medicine , laparoscopic cholecystectomy , benchmarking , health care , emergency medicine , demography , surgery , business , marketing , sociology , economics , economic growth
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).