Characteristics of Operating Room Procedures in U.S. Hospitals, 2011

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border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="70%"><div class="pagetext">February 2014</div> <div class="bannertitle2">Characteristics of Operating Room Procedures in U.S. Hospitals, 2011</div> <div class="pagetext"> Audrey J. Weiss, Ph.D., Anne Elixhauser, Ph.D., and Roxanne M. Andrews, Ph.D. Introduction Patients admitted to the hospital may undergo a variety of treatments, including medical therapy involving administration of medications, diagnostic or therapeutic procedures (such as an X-ray) that occur outside the operating room (OR), and major OR procedures (such as appendectomy). Approximately 15 million hospital stays each year in the United States involve OR procedures.1 On average, hospital stays that involve an OR procedure have been reported to be 2.5 times more costly than stays that do not involve an OR procedure.2 Identifying the volume, characteristics, and costs of OR procedures can help policymakers and researchers better understand population health and facilitate health care improvement efforts. Changes in health care provider payment arrangements and advances in medical practice and technology can impact the nature of the procedures that are performed in hospital operating rooms.3 For example, some less complex surgical procedures, such as cataract surgery, that were once routinely performed in inpatient hospital operating rooms are now primarily performed in the ambulatory surgery setting.4 This Statistical Brief presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) on characteristics of OR procedures in 2011. For this Statistical Brief, OR procedures are defined using the HCUP procedure classes tool.5 In this tool, OR procedures are identified based on diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) that use physician panels to determine whether the procedure would be performed in a hospital OR in most hospitals. The findings in this Statistical Brief represent an update to 2007 statistics reported by Elixhauser and Andrews. 6 Patient characteristics, resource use, and outcomes are provided for stays with and without OR procedures. The most frequent and most costly OR procedures also are presented. All differences between estimates noted in the text are significant at the .0001 level or better. Findings Characteristics of hospital stays involving operating room procedures, 2011 In 2011, a total of 38.6 million hospital stays occurred in the United States at an aggregate cost of $387.2 billion. Of these, just over one-fourth of the stays (28.9 percent) and nearly half of the costs (47.9 percent) involved hospitalizations during which OR procedures were performed (Figure 1). </div> </td> <td valign="top" width="30%"><table style="background-color:#ebf4f3"> <tr> <td><div class="pagetext" align="center">Highlights</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td><div class="pagetext"> <ul type="square"> <li>In 2011, hospitalizations that involved operating room (OR) procedures constituted 29 percent of the total 38.6 million hospital stays in the United States and 48 percent of the total $387 billion in hospital costs.</li> <li>Hospital stays that involved an OR procedure were about twice as costly as stays that did not involve an OR procedure.</li> <li>Compared with hospital stays that did not include an OR procedure, stays involving an OR procedure resulted in a longer length of stay, were more likely to be elective admissions, and were less likely to involve major or extreme severity of illness.</li> <li>Stays billed to Medicare and Medicaid together accounted for 63 percent of aggregate hospital costs in 2011.</li> <li>Compared with hospital stays that did not include an OR procedure, stays involving an OR procedure resulted in a longer length of stay, were more likely to be elective admissions, and were less likely to involve major or extreme severity of illness.</li> <li>Hospital stays involving OR procedures were about half as likely to result in patient death as were stays without an OR procedure.</li> <li>The 20 most common procedures accounted for more than half of all OR procedures. Cesarean section and circumcision were the most frequent OR procedures. Musculoskeletal procedures and cardiac procedures also accounted for a substantial portion of the most common OR procedures.</li> <li>Twenty procedures accounted for more than half of all costs for stays involving OR procedures. Spinal fusion, knee arthroplasty, and percutaneous coronary angioplasty (PTCA) were the procedures with the highest aggregate hospital costs. </li> </ul> </div> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <table width="100%" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"> <tr><td> Figure 1. Percentage of inpatient discharges and aggregate costs for hospital stays with and without operating room (OR) procedures in U.S. hospitals, 2011 <img src="/web/20140328234122im_/http://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/figure1_sb170.png" alt="" width="645" height="464"> Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), 2011 <div class="pagetext"> <div class="thinborder_sb">Figure 1. Percentage of inpatient discharges and aggregate costs for hospital stays with and without operating room (OR) procedures in U.S. hospitals, 2011. This figure is a stacked bar chart showing the percentage of discharges and aggregate costs by the type of inpatient hospitalization. Discharges: Stays with OR procedures, 28.9%, Stays without OR procedures, 71.1%. Aggregate Costs: Stays with OR procedures, 47.9%, Stays without OR procedures, 52.1%. Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), 2011.</div></div> </td></tr> </table> <table width="100%" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td><div class="pagetext"> Table 1 presents the patient characteristics for hospital stays with and without OR procedures. The vast majority of these hospital stays occurred among adults aged 20-84 years (81.3% of stays involving OR procedures and 73.1% of stays without OR procedures). Children (aged 0-19 years) and the elderly (aged 85 years and older) were less likely to undergo OR procedures. Females accounted for just over half of hospital stays, with and without an OR procedure. Among hospital stays involving an OR procedure, the most common expected primary payers were private insurance (41.3 percent of stays) and Medicare (34.0 percent). For hospital stays that did not involve an OR procedure, Medicare was the most common primary payer (42.1 percent of stays). </div></td></tr> </table> <table width="75%" align="center" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" class="pagetext"> <tr> <td colspan="5" align="center">Table 1. Patient characteristics for hospital stays with and without operating room (OR) procedures in U.S. hospitals, 2011</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="col" rowspan="2">Patient characteristic</th> <th scope="col" colspan="2">Hospital stays with OR procedures</th> <th scope="col" colspan="2">Hospital stays without OR procedures</th> </tr> <tr> <th scope="col">Number, in thousands</th> <th scope="col">Percent</th> <th scope="col">Number, in thousands</th> <th scope="col">Percent</th> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="left">Overall</td> <td align="right">11,144</td> <td align="right">100.0</td> <td align="right">27,447</td> <td align="right">100.0</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" colspan="5" align="left">Age</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" class="td_padding_30" align="left"><1*</td> <td align="right">1,167</td> <td align="right">10.5 </td> <td align="right">3,095</td> <td align="right">11.3 </td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" class="td_padding_30" align="left">1-19</td> <td align="right">420</td> <td align="right">3.8</td> <td align="right">1,481</td> <td align="right">5.4</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" class="td_padding_30" align="left">20-44</td> <td align="right">2,776</td> <td align="right">24.9</td> <td align="right">6,111</td> <td align="right">22.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" class="td_padding_30" align="left">45-64</td> <td align="right">3,208</td> <td align="right">28.8</td> <td align="right">6,486</td> <td align="right">23.6</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" class="td_padding_30" align="left">65-84</td> <td align="right">3,071</td> <td align="right">27.6</td> <td align="right">7,462</td> <td align="right">27.2</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" class="td_padding_30" align="left">≥85</td> <td align="right">490</td> <td align="right">4.4</td> <td align="right">2,793</td> <td align="right">10.2</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" colspan="5" align="left">Sex</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" class="td_padding_30" align="left">Male</td> <td align="right">5,130</td> <td align="right">46.0</td> <td align="right">11,052</td> <td align="right">40.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" class="td_padding_30" align="left">Female</td> <td align="right">5,981</td> <td align="right">53.7</td> <td align="right">16,353</td> <td align="right">59.6</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" colspan="5" align="left">Expected Primary Payer </td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" class="td_padding_30" align="left">Medicare</td> <td align="right">3,794</td> <td align="right">34.0</td> <td align="right">11,543</td> <td align="right">42.1</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" class="td_padding_30" align="left">Medicaid</td> <td align="right">1,808</td> <td align="right">16.2</td> <td align="right">5,769</td> <td align="right">21.0</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" class="td_padding_30" align="left">Private</td> <td align="right">4,604</td> <td align="right">41.3</td> <td align="right">7,627</td> <td align="right">27.8</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" class="td_padding_30" align="left">Uninsured</td> <td align="right">465</td> <td align="right">4.2</td> <td align="right">1,603</td> <td align="right">5.8</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="5">* The vast majority of hospital stays with OR procedures among infants (aged <1 year) involved circumcision. Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), 2011 </td></tr> </table> <table width="100%" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td><div class="pagetext"> Overall, hospital stays with OR procedures accounted for $185 billion and stays without OR procedures accounted for $202 billion (Table 2). Hospital stays with OR procedures were twice as expensive as hospital stays without OR procedures in total costs (mean cost of $16,700 versus $7,400 per stay) and cost per day ($3,300 versus $1,700). </div></td></tr></table> <table width="80%" align="center" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" class="pagetext"> <tr> <td colspan="3" align="center">Table 2. Resource use and outcomes for hospital stays with and without operating room (OR) procedures in U.S. hospitals, 2011</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="col">Resource use and outcomes</th> <th scope="col">Hospital stays with OR procedures*</th> <th scope="col">Hospital stays without OR procedures</th> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="left">Aggregate costs, $ in billions </td> <td align="right">185</td> <td align="right">202</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="left">Total hospital costs, mean $</td> <td align="right">16,700</td> <td align="right">7,400</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="left">Cost per day, mean $</td> <td align="right">3,300</td> <td align="right">1,700</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="left">Length of stay, mean days</td> <td align="right">5.0</td> <td align="right">4.4</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="left">Elective admission, % of N</td> <td align="right">48.5</td> <td align="right">13.4</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="left">Severity of illness Level 3 or 4 (most severe), % of N</td> <td align="right">23.7</td> <td align="right">34.7</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="left">Died in the hospital, % of N</td> <td align="right">1.1</td> <td align="right">2.2</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="3">* OR procedures included birth-related procedures such as Cesarean section and circumcision. Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), 2011 </td></tr> </table> <table width="100%" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td><div class="pagetext"> Hospital stays involving an OR procedure were longer than stays that did not involve an OR procedure (5.0 versus 4.4 days). Elective hospital admission was more frequent for stays that involved an OR procedure (48.5 percent) than for stays without an OR procedure (13.4 percent). Hospital stays with an OR procedure were less likely to involve major or extreme severity of illness compared with stays that did not involve an OR procedure (23.7 versus 34.7 percent of stays). Patients with an OR procedure were half as likely to die in the hospital compared with those who did not have an OR procedure (1.1 versus 2.2 percent). Most frequent and costly types of operating room procedures, 2011 Table 3 provides the top 20 most frequent all-listed OR procedures. Together, these 20 procedures accounted for more than half (54.0 percent) of the 15.7 million OR procedures performed in 2011. Cesarean section and circumcision were the most common OR procedures, accounting for more than 8 percent and 7 percent of all OR procedures, respectively. Five musculoskeletal procedures—knee arthroplasty, laminectomy, spinal fusion, hip replacement, and treatment of hip or lower extremity fracture or dislocation—together accounted for about 17 percent of all OR procedures. Four cardiac procedures—percutaneous coronary angioplasty (PTCA), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), cardiac device—related procedures, and heart valve procedures—together accounted for another 7 percent of all OR procedures. </div></td></tr> </table> <table width="85%" align="center" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" class="pagetext"> <tr> <td colspan="5" align="center">Table 3. Most frequent all-listed operating room (OR) procedures performed in U.S. hospitals, 2011</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="col">Rank</th> <th scope="col">All-listed OR procedure*</th> <th scope="col">Number of procedures, in thousands</th> <th scope="col">Percent of all OR procedures</th> <th scope="col">Rate of OR procedures per 10,000 population</th> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="left" colspan="2">All-listed OR procedures</td> <td align="right">15,662</td> <td align="right">100.0</td> <td align="right">502.6</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">1</td> <td align="left">Cesarean section</td> <td align="right">1,272</td> <td align="right">8.1</td> <td align="right">40.8</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">2</td> <td align="left">Circumcision</td> <td align="right">1,108</td> <td align="right">7.1</td> <td align="right">35.6</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">3</td> <td align="left">Arthroplasty of knee</td> <td align="right">718</td> <td align="right">4.6</td> <td align="right">23.1</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">4</td> <td align="left">Percutaneous coronary angioplasty (PTCA)</td> <td align="right">560</td> <td align="right">3.6</td> <td align="right">18.0</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">5</td> <td align="left">Laminectomy, excision intervertebral disc</td> <td align="right">525</td> <td align="right">3.4</td> <td align="right">16.8</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">6</td> <td align="left">Spinal fusion</td> <td align="right">488</td> <td align="right">3.1</td> <td align="right">15.7</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">7</td> <td align="left">Hip replacement, total and partial</td> <td align="right">467</td> <td align="right">3.0</td> <td align="right">15.0</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">8</td> <td align="left">Cholecystectomy and common duct exploration</td> <td align="right">449</td> <td align="right">2.9</td> <td align="right">14.4</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">9</td> <td align="left">Hysterectomy, abdominal and vaginal</td> <td align="right">389</td> <td align="right">2.5</td> <td align="right">12.5</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">10</td> <td align="left">Colorectal resection</td> <td align="right">333</td> <td align="right">2.1</td> <td align="right">10.7</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">11</td> <td align="left">Appendectomy</td> <td align="right">327</td> <td align="right">2.1</td> <td align="right">10.5</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">12</td> <td align="left">Treatment, fracture or dislocation of hip and femur</td> <td align="right">289</td> <td align="right">1.8</td> <td align="right">9.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">13</td> <td align="left">Ligation of fallopian tubes</td> <td align="right">274</td> <td align="right">1.8</td> <td align="right">8.8</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">14</td> <td align="left">Oophorectomy, unilateral and bilateral</td> <td align="right">268</td> <td align="right">1.7</td> <td align="right">8.6</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">15</td> <td align="left">Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)</td> <td align="right">214</td> <td align="right">1.4</td> <td align="right">6.9</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">16</td> <td align="left">Treatment, fracture or dislocation of lower extremity (other than hip or femur)</td> <td align="right">205</td> <td align="right">1.3</td> <td align="right">6.6</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">17</td> <td align="left">Debridement of wound, infection, or burn</td> <td align="right">167</td> <td align="right">1.1</td> <td align="right">5.4</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">18</td> <td align="left">Amputation of lower extremity</td> <td align="right">140</td> <td align="right">0.9</td> <td align="right">4.5</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">19</td> <td align="left">Procedures related to cardiac pacemaker or cardioverter/defibrillator</td> <td align="right">136</td> <td align="right">0.9</td> <td align="right">4.4</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">20</td> <td align="left">Heart valve procedures</td> <td align="right">120</td> <td align="right">0.8</td> <td align="right">3.9</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5">* Clinical Classifications Software (CCS), which groups procedures into clinical categories, was used in this analysis. Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), 2011 </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td><div class="pagetext"> Table 4 lists the top 20 OR procedures with the highest aggregate hospital costs for the entire hospital stay during which this procedure was first listed on the discharge record. Together, these 20 procedures accounted for more than half (57.5 percent) of all costs associated with stays involving OR procedures and more than one-fourth (26.8 percent) of all hospital costs for stays of any type. </div></td></tr> </table> <table width="85%" align="center" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" class="pagetext"> <tr> <td colspan="6" align="center">Table 4. Most costly first-listed operating room (OR) procedures performed in U.S. hospitals, 2011</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="col">Rank</th> <th scope="col">First-listed OR procedure*</th> <th scope="col">Aggregate costs for hospital stays, $ in millions</th> <th scope="col">Percent of aggregate costs for stays with OR procedures, %</th> <th scope="col">Mean cost per hospital stay, $</th> <th scope="col">Number of stays, in thousands</th> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" colspan="2" align="left">First-listed OR procedures</td> <td align="right">180,335</td> <td align="right">100.0</td> <td align="right">16,600</td> <td align="right">10,867</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">1</td> <td align="left">Spinal fusion</td> <td align="right">12,837</td> <td align="right">7.1</td> <td align="right">27,600</td> <td align="right">465</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">2</td> <td align="left">Arthroplasty of knee</td> <td align="right">11,317</td> <td align="right">6.3</td> <td align="right">15,900</td> <td align="right">711</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">3</td> <td align="left">Percutaneous coronary angioplasty (PTCA)</td> <td align="right">9,730</td> <td align="right">5.4</td> <td align="right">18,800</td> <td align="right">517</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">4</td> <td align="left">Hip replacement, total and partial</td> <td align="right">7,962</td> <td align="right">4.4</td> <td align="right">17,200</td> <td align="right">464</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">5</td> <td align="left">Cesarean section</td> <td align="right">7,481</td> <td align="right">4.1</td> <td align="right">5,900</td> <td align="right">1,269</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">6</td> <td align="left">Colorectal resection</td> <td align="right">6,747</td> <td align="right">3.7</td> <td align="right">23,400</td> <td align="right">289</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">7</td> <td align="left">Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)</td> <td align="right">6,411</td> <td align="right">3.6</td> <td align="right">38,700</td> <td align="right">166</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">8</td> <td align="left">Heart valve procedures</td> <td align="right">6,070</td> <td align="right">3.4</td> <td align="right">53,400</td> <td align="right">114</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">9</td> <td align="left">Cholecystectomy and common duct exploration</td> <td align="right">5,048</td> <td align="right">2.8</td> <td align="right">12,600</td> <td align="right">400</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">10</td> <td align="left">Treatment, fracture or dislocation of hip and femur</td> <td align="right">4,275</td> <td align="right">2.4</td> <td align="right">16,800</td> <td align="right">255</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">11</td> <td align="left">Procedures related to cardiac pacemaker or cardioverter/defibrillator</td> <td align="right">4,036</td> <td align="right">2.2</td> <td align="right">33,200</td> <td align="right">122</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">12</td> <td align="left">Hysterectomy, abdominal and vaginal</td> <td align="right">3,268</td> <td align="right">1.8</td> <td align="right">9,300</td> <td align="right">351</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">13</td> <td align="left">Debridement of wound, infection or burn</td> <td align="right">2,642</td> <td align="right">1.5</td> <td align="right">20,700</td> <td align="right">128</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">14</td> <td align="left">Amputation of lower extremity</td> <td align="right">2,568</td> <td align="right">1.4</td> <td align="right">21,200</td> <td align="right">121</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">15</td> <td align="left">Appendectomy</td> <td align="right">2,441</td> <td align="right">1.4</td> <td align="right">9,200</td> <td align="right">265</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">16</td> <td align="left">Small bowel resection</td> <td align="right">2,409</td> <td align="right">1.3</td> <td align="right">34,500</td> <td align="right">70</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">17</td> <td align="left">Laminectomy, excision intervertebral disc</td> <td align="right">2,347</td> <td align="right">1.3</td> <td align="right">11,500</td> <td align="right">203</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">18</td> <td align="left">Treatment, fracture or dislocation of lower extremity (other than hip or femur)</td> <td align="right">2,220</td> <td align="right">1.2</td> <td align="right">13,700</td> <td align="right">162</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">19</td> <td align="left">Lobectomy or pneumonectomy</td> <td align="right">1,940</td> <td align="right">1.1</td> <td align="right">23,000</td> <td align="right">84</td> </tr> <tr> <td scope="row" align="center">20</td> <td align="left">Circumcision</td> <td align="right">1,885</td> <td align="right">1.0</td> <td align="right">2,000</td> <td align="right">955</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="6">* Clinical Classifications Software (CCS), which groups procedures into clinical categories, was used in this analysis. Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), 2011</td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td><div class="pagetext"> Six of the top 20 OR procedures with the highest aggregate hospital costs were musculoskeletal procedures: spinal fusion (7.1 percent of aggregate costs for stays with OR procedures), knee arthroplasty (6.3 percent), hip replacement (4.4 percent), treatment of hip fracture (2.4 percent), laminectomy (1.3 percent), and treatment of other lower extremity fracture (1.2 percent). Four heart-related procedures were among the top 20 OR procedures with the highest aggregate costs: PTCA (5.4 percent of costs for stays with OR procedures), CABG (3.6 percent), heart valve procedures (3.4 percent), and pacemaker/cardioverter/defibrillator procedures (2.2 percent). Among the 20 OR procedures with the highest aggregate hospital costs, heart valve procedures and CABG had the highest mean costs per hospital stay ($53,400 and $38,700, respectively). Two childbirth and delivery-related procedures (Cesarean section and circumcision) were also in the top 20 OR procedures with the highest aggregate costs, accounting for 4.1 percent and 1.0 percent of costs for stays with OR procedures. Four gastrointestinal procedures were in the top 20: colorectal resection (3.7 percent of aggregate inpatient costs for stays with OR procedures), cholecystectomy (2.8 percent), appendectomy (1.4 percent), and small bowel resection (1.3 percent). Data Source The estimates in this Statistical Brief are based upon data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) 2011 Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS). Supplemental sources included population denominator data for use with HCUP databases.7 Many hypothesis tests were conducted for this Statistical Brief. Thus, to decrease the number of false-positive results, we reduced the significance level to .0001 for individual tests. Definitions Procedures, ICD-9-CM, and Clinical Classifications Software (CCS) All-listed procedures include all procedures performed during the hospital stay, whether for definitive treatment or for diagnostic or exploratory purposes. The first-listed procedure is the procedure that is listed first on the discharge record. Inpatient data define this as the "principal procedure"—the procedure that is performed for definitive treatment rather than for diagnostic or exploratory purposes (i.e., the procedure that was necessary to take care of a complication). ICD-9-CM is the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification, which assigns numeric codes to procedures. There are about 4,000 ICD-9-CM procedure codes. CCS categorizes procedure codes into clinically meaningful categories.8 This "clinical grouper" makes it easier to quickly understand patterns of procedure use. CCS categories identified as "Other" typically are not reported; these categories include miscellaneous, otherwise unclassifiable procedures that may be difficult to interpret as a group. In addition, procedure categories that are nonspecific or likely to be adjuncts to other procedures (e.g., excision, lysis peritoneal adhesions; partial bone excision; intraoperative cholangiogram) are not included in the listings of specific procedures in Tables 3 and 4. Major operating room (OR) procedures were defined using procedure classes, which categorize each ICD-9-CM procedure code as either major therapeutic, major diagnostic, minor therapeutic, or minor diagnostic.9 Major OR procedures are considered to be valid OR procedures based on diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). This classification scheme relies upon physician panels that classify ICD-9-CM procedure codes according to whether the procedure would be performed in a hospital operating room in most hospitals. Types of hospitals included in HCUP HCUP is based on data from community hospitals, which are defined as short-term, non-Federal, general, and other hospitals, excluding hospital units of other institutions (e.g., prisons). HCUP data include obstetrics and gynecology, otolaryngology, orthopedic, cancer, pediatric, public, and academic medical hospitals. Excluded are long-term care, rehabilitation, psychiatric, and alcoholism and chemical dependency hospitals. However, if a patient received long-term care, rehabilitation, or treatment for psychiatric or chemical dependency conditions in a community hospital, the discharge record for that stay will be included in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS). Unit of analysis The unit of analysis is the hospital discharge (i.e., the hospital stay), not a person or patient. This means that a person who is admitted to the hospital multiple times in one year will be counted each time as a separate "discharge" from the hospital. Costs and charges Total hospital charges were converted to costs using HCUP Cost-to-Charge Ratios based on hospital accounting reports from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).10 Costs will reflect the actual expenses incurred in the production of hospital services, such as wages, supplies, and utility costs; charges represent the amount a hospital billed for the case. For each hospital, a hospital-wide cost-to-charge ratio is used. Hospital charges reflect the amount the hospital billed for the entire hospital stay and do not include professional (physician) fees. For the purposes of this Statistical Brief, costs are reported to the nearest hundred. Aggregate costs are calculated using aggregate charges. Aggregate charges include discharges with missing or invalid charges that are imputed by taking the mean charges for all discharges of the same diagnosis-related group (DRG) with nonmissing charges. Fewer than 2 percent of cases are missing charges in HCUP data. Mean costs are calculated using only discharges with nonmissing and valid charges. Because of the manner in which missing charges are imputed to calculate aggregate charges, simple calculation of the number of discharges multiplied by the mean cost will not always equal the aggregate costs. Payer Payer is the expected primary payer for the hospital stay. To make coding uniform across all HCUP data sources, payer combines detailed categories into general groups: <ul> <li>Medicare: includes patients covered by fee-for-service and managed care Medicare</li> <li>Medicaid: includes patients covered by fee-for-service and managed care Medicaid </li> <li>Private Insurance: includes Blue Cross, commercial carriers, and private health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations (PPOs)</li> <li>Other: includes Worker's Compensation, TRICARE/CHAMPUS, CHAMPVA, Title V, and other government programs</li> <li>Uninsured: includes an insurance status of "self-pay" and "no charge."</li> </ul> Encounters billed to the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) may be classified as Medicaid, Private Insurance, or Other, depending on the structure of the State program. Because most State data do not identify SCHIP patients specifically, it is not possible to present this information separately. When more than one payer is listed for a hospital discharge, the first-listed payer is used. Patient complexity Cases with the highest severity of illness are discharges with a score of 3 or 4 on the All Patient Refined DRG (APR-DRG) severity of illness scale. The four severity of illness subclasses are numbered sequentially from 1 to 4 indicating minor, moderate, major, or extreme severity of illness. The determination of severity of illness is disease specific. Thus, the significance attributed to complicating or comorbid conditions is dependent on the underlying problem. For example, certain types of infections are considered a more significant problem in a patient who is immunosuppressed than in a patient with a fractured arm. In APR-DRGs, high severity of illness is primarily determined by the interaction of multiple diseases. Patients with multiple comorbid conditions involving multiple organ systems represent difficult-to-treat patients who tend to have poor outcomes. The assignment of a patient to a severity of illness subclass takes into consideration not only the level of the secondary diagnoses but also the interaction among secondary diagnoses, age, principal diagnosis, and the presence of certain operating room and nonoperating room procedures. About HCUP HCUP is a family of powerful health care databases, software tools, and products for advancing research. Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), HCUP includes the largest all-payer encounter-level collection of longitudinal health care data (inpatient, ambulatory surgery, and emergency department) in the United States, beginning in 1988. HCUP is a Federal-State-Industry Partnership that brings together the data collection efforts of many organizations—such as State data organizations, hospital associations, private data organizations, and the Federal government—to create a national information resource. HCUP would not be possible without the contributions of the following data collection Partners from across the United States: Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association Arizona Department of Health Services Arkansas Department of Health California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Colorado Hospital Association Connecticut Hospital Association Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Georgia Hospital Association Hawaii Health Information Corporation Illinois Department of Public Health Indiana Hospital Association Iowa Hospital Association Kansas Hospital Association Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Maine Health Data Organization Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis Michigan Health & Hospital Association Minnesota Hospital Association Mississippi Department of Health Missouri Hospital Industry Data Institute Montana MHA - An Association of Montana Health Care Providers Nebraska Hospital Association Nevada Department of Health and Human Services New Hampshire Department of Health & Human Services New Jersey Department of Health New Mexico Department of Health New York State Department of Health North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services North Dakota (data provided by the Minnesota Hospital Association) Ohio Hospital Association Oklahoma State Department of Health Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems Oregon Health Policy and Research Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council Rhode Island Department of Health South Carolina Budget & Control Board South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations Tennessee Hospital Association Texas Department of State Health Services Utah Department of Health Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems Virginia Health Information Washington State Department of Health West Virginia Health Care Authority Wisconsin Department of Health Services Wyoming Hospital Association About the NIS The HCUP Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) is a nationwide database of hospital inpatient stays. The NIS is nationally representative of all community hospitals (i.e., short-term, non-Federal, nonrehabilitation hospitals). The NIS is a sample of hospitals and includes all patients from each hospital, regardless of payer. It is drawn from a sampling frame that contains hospitals comprising more than 95 percent of all discharges in the United States. The vast size of the NIS allows the study of topics at both the national and regional levels for specific subgroups of patients. In addition, NIS data are standardized across years to facilitate ease of use. About HCUPnet HCUPnet is an online query system that offers instant access to the largest set of all-payer health care databases publicly available. HCUPnet has an easy step-by-step query system, allowing for tables and graphs to be generated on national and regional statistics as well as trends for community hospitals in the United States. HCUPnet generates statistics using data from HCUP's Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), the Kids' Inpatient Database (KID), the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS), the State Inpatient Databases (SID), and the State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD). For More Information For more information about HCUP, visit <a href="/web/20140328234122/http://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/" target="_blank">http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/</a>. For additional HCUP statistics, visit HCUPnet, our interactive query system, at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140328234122/http://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/" target="_blank">http://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/</a>. For information on other hospitalizations in the United States, refer to the following HCUP Statistical Briefs located at <a href="/web/20140328234122/http://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/statbriefs.jsp" target="_blank">http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/statbriefs.jsp</a>: <ul> <li>Statistical Brief #144, Overview of Hospital Stays in the United States, 2010</li> <li>Statistical Brief #146, Costs for Hospital Stays in the United States, 2010</li> <li>Statistical Brief #148, Most Frequent Conditions in U.S. Hospitals, 2010</li> <li>Statistical Brief #149, Most Frequent Procedures Performed in U.S. Hospitals, 2010</li> </ul> For a detailed description of HCUP, more information on the design of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), and methods to calculate estimates, please refer to the following publications: Introduction to the HCUP Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 2009. Online. May 2011. U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. <a href="/web/20140328234122/http://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_2009_INTRODUCTION.pdf" target="_blank">http://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_2009_INTRODUCTION.pdf</a>. Accessed November 21, 2013. Houchens R, Elixhauser A. Final Report on Calculating Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) Variances, 2001. HCUP Methods Series Report #2003-2. Online. June 2005 (revised June 6, 2005). U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. <a href="/web/20140328234122/http://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/CalculatingNISVariances200106092005.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/CalculatingNISVariances200106092005.pdf</a>. Accessed November 21, 2013. Suggested Citation Weiss AJ (Truven Health Analytics), Elixhauser A (AHRQ), Andrews RM (AHRQ). Characteristics of Operating Room Procedures in U.S. Hospitals, 2011. HCUP Statistical Brief #170. February 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. <a href="/web/20140328234122/http://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb170-Operating-Room-Procedures-United-States-2011.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb170-Operating-Room-Procedures-United-States-2011.pdf</a>. Acknowledgments The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of Ed Hock of Social & Scientific Systems, Inc. *** AHRQ welcomes questions and comments from readers of this publication who are interested in obtaining more information about access, cost, use, financing, and quality of health care in the United States. We also invite you to tell us how you are using this Statistical Brief and other HCUP data and tools, and to share suggestions on how HCUP products might be enhanced to further meet your needs. Please e-mail us at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140328234122/mailto:hcup@ahrq.gov">hcup@ahrq.gov</a> or send a letter to the address below: Irene Fraser, Ph.D., Director Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 540 Gaither Road Rockville, MD 20850 1 Elixhauser A, Andrews RM. Profile of inpatient operating room procedures in US hospitals in 2007. Arch Surg. December 2010;145(12):1201—8. 2 Ibid. 3 Cullen KA, Hall, MJ, Golosinskiy A. Ambulatory Surgery in the United States, 2006. National Health Statistics Reports #11. September 4, 2009. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140328234122/http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr011.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr011.pdf</a>. Accessed November 21, 2013. 4 Ibid. 5 HCUP Procedure Classes. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Rockville, MD. Updated September 2013. <a href="/web/20140328234122/http://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/procedure/procedure.jsp">http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/procedure/procedure.jsp</a>. Accessed November 21, 2013. 6 Elixhauser A, Andrews RM. Profile of inpatient operating room procedures in US hospitals in 2007. Arch Surg. December 2010;145(12):1201—8. 7 Barrett M, Lopez-Gonzalez L, Coffey R, Levit K. Population Denominator Data for use with the HCUP Databases (Updated with 2012 Population data). HCUP Methods Series Report #2013-01. Online. March 8, 2013. U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. <a href="/web/20140328234122/http://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2013_01.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2013_01.pdf</a>. Accessed November 21, 2013. 8 HCUP Clinical Classifications Software (CCS). Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. Updated November 2013. <a href="/web/20140328234122/http://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/ccs/ccs.jsp">http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/ccs/ccs.jsp</a>. Accessed November 21, 2013. 9 HCUP Procedure Classes. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Rockville, MD. Updated September 2013. <a href="/web/20140328234122/http://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/procedure/procedure.jsp">http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/procedure/procedure.jsp</a>. Accessed November 21, 2013. 10 HCUP Cost-to-Charge Ratio Files (CCR). Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). 2001—2009. U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. Updated September 2012. <a href="/web/20140328234122/http://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/state/costtocharge.jsp">http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/state/costtocharge.jsp</a>. 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