Variation in Hospital Costs and Reimbursement for Endovascular Aneurysm Repair —A Vascular Quality Initiative Pilot Project

Comparing costs between centers is difficult because of the heterogeneity of vascular procedures contained in broad diagnosis-related group (DRG) billing categories. The purpose of this pilot project was to develop a mechanism to merge Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) clinical data with hospital billing data to allow more accurate cost and reimbursement comparison for endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) procedures across centers.

Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - August 23, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Gary W. Lemmon, Randall R. DeMartino, Joseph R. Schneider, Tej Singh, Larry Kraiss, Salvatore Scali, Apostolis Tassiopoulus, Andrew Hoel, Jack L. Cronenwett Tags: Abstract from the 2016 Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society Annual Meeting Source Type: research