Table 1.
Spending Category | Source† | Type of Spending Included | Description |
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Acute care use | Hospital claims | Emergency department visits, inpatient hospitalizations | Emergency room and hospitalization visits |
Systemic therapy | Hospital claims with line items | Intravenous and oral chemotherapy, injectable hormone therapy, and intravenous immunotherapy | Oral/injectable systemic therapy medication and administration |
Hospice | Hospital claims | Inpatient hospice | Inpatient hospice services |
Office/outpatient | Hospital claims | Office and outpatient visits, endoscopy/bronchoscopy | Clinician visits, including tests and procedures, if applicable |
Other therapy | Hospital claims | Day surgery, radiation/oncology | Treatments serviced outside the outpatient and acute care setting |
Rehab/LTC | Hospital claims | Long-term acute care hospital, outpatient intensive detoxification, inpatient rehabilitation, wound care | LTC services, skilled nursing care, and rehabilitation |
LTC denotes long-term care; and Rehab, rehabilitation.
Source indicates the codes and cost items used to group together cost sectors. All data were abstracted from the hospital cost accounting system used by the University of Pennsylvania.