Table 3.

Cost analysis of patients with surgical site infections

Payer	Intervention period
	Preintervention (n = 741)	Intervention (n = 636)
Medicare
Number of infections	15	7
Lost revenue/infection	−$27,000	−$27,000
Subtotal	−$405,000	−$189,000
Private insurance
Number of infections	5	2
Lost revenue/infection	−$18,000	−$18,000
Subtotal	−$90,000	−$36,000
Total lost revenue	−$495,000	−$225,000*

^* Lost revenue reduced by an absolute amount of $270,000 and, after adjusting for the number of surgeries, an adjusted amount of $231,741.