Characterizing and Assessing the Impact of Surgery on Healthcare Spending Among Medicare Enrolled Preoperative Super-utilizers

Conclusions: Although super-utilizers accounted for only 5.3% of patients, these patients accounted for 39.6% of total Medicare expenditures in the year before surgery. Among a subset of super-utilizers, surgical intervention was associated with a reduction in annual Medicare expenditure in the year after surgery.
Source: Annals of Surgery - Category: Surgery Tags: PAPERS OF THE 139TH ASA ANNUAL MEETING Source Type: research