Discharges with surgical procedures performed less often than once per month per hospital account for two-thirds of hospital costs of inpatient surgery

Most surgical discharges (54%) at the average hospital are for procedures performed no more often than once per month at that hospital. We hypothesized that such uncommon procedures would be associated with an even greater percentage of the total cost of performing all surgical procedures at that hospital.

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