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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Apr 25.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Heart Fail. 2023 Feb;11(2):211–223. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2022.11.007

Table 3.

Medicare Part A Payments in 2019 US Dollars for Patients Eligible for Vericiguat

All discharged alive patients All readmitted patients
VICTORIA Eligible Patients
(GWTG-HF)
FDA Label Patients
(GWTG-HF)
Hospitalized HF with EF<45%
(GWTG-HF)
VICTORIA Eligible Patients
(GWTG-HF)
FDA Label Patients
(GWTG-HF)
Hospitalized HF with EF<45%
(GWTG-HF)
(N=15,527) (N=35,614) (N=37,952) (N=10,114) (N=22,497) (N=24,236)
Cost during index admission
Mean 12,969 13,677 14,236 12,974 13,661 14,298
Std Dev 12,133 13,751 16,165 11,885 13,154 16,159
Median 9,012 9,355 9,524 9,091 9,434 9,642
10th Pctl 4,658 4,740 4,801 4,734 4,802 4,883
Q1 6,290 6,471 6,637 6,393 6,588 6,803
Q3 14,924 15,743 16,111 14,918 15,836 16,242
90th Pctl 26,443 27,481 28,114 26,333 27,193 27,875
99th Pctl 58,425 66,660 71,396 57,090 64,796 70,113
Cost at 30d post index discharge
Mean 4,827 4,928 5,066 7,241 7,647 7,779
Std Dev 17,088 18,453 18,412 20,454 22,620 22,439
Median 0 0 0 0 0 0
10th Pctl 0 0 0 0 0 0
Q1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Q3 0 0 0 9,304 9,466 9,696
90th Pctl 15,243 15,139 15,607 21,409 22,168 22,459
99th Pctl 57,696 59,753 60,956 69,694 73,055 73,765
Cost at 1y post index discharge
Mean 25,428 25,106 26,013 38,675 39,379 40,377
Std Dev 41,626 43,229 44,167 46,173 48,828 49,636
Median 11,036 10,278 10,746 24,514 24,480 25,164
10th Pctl 0 0 0 6,790 6,793 6,934
Q1 0 0 0 11,254 11,246 11,521
Q3 34,172 33,183 34,365 49,356 49,671 51,034
90th Pctl 68,104 67,487 69,537 86,368 85,841 88,478
99th Pctl 184,530 198,008 202,931 218,404 241,490 247,191
*

PCTL=Percentile; STD Dev= Standard Deviation; D= Days; Y=Year; FDA= Food and Drug Administration; GWTG= Get With The Guidelines; HFrEF= Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction