Table 6.
Distribution of Episode Costs by Subgroup
| Episode Cost Score Mean (SD) | Episode Cost Score Percentile |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 10th | 25th | 50th | 75th | 90th | 99th | ||
| All episodes | $2876 ($265) | $2130 | $2682 | $2750 | $2828 | $2962 | $3151 | $3834 |
| ASC/bilateral∗ | $3790 ($250) | $3441 | $3638 | $3684 | $3728 | $3795 | $3945 | $5098 |
| ASC/unilateral | $2065 ($203) | $1796 | $1908 | $1944 | $1994 | $2104 | $2357 | $2766 |
| HOPD/bilateral∗ | $4977 ($519) | $3632 | $3810 | $4962 | $5175 | $5270 | $5326 | $5738 |
| HOPD/unilateral | $2657 ($320) | $1882 | $2140 | $2573 | $2694 | $2778 | $2943 | $3582 |
ASC = Ambulatory Surgery Center; HOPD = Hospital Outpatient Department; SD = standard deviation.
∗
Bilateral episodes are those with right and left eye cataract surgery (2 cataract surgery trigger codes) occurring ≤ 30 days apart in the same patient.