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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2008 Jul 17;180(3):1070–1074. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.05.051

Figure 2.

Figure 2

ASC Utilization for the Urologic Procedures in Florida from 1998 to 2005, with Projection to 2008. The vertical line at year 2006 represents the start of the forecast, and the dashed lines represent the upper and lower confidence intervals for each forecasted rate.

Overall utilization of ambulatory surgical procedures increased over the eight years of the study from 689 cases per 100,000 to 1027 cases per 100,000 (a 49% increase), with forecasted growth to 1041 procedures per 100,000 by 2008. We forecast a slight increase in the use of those procedures that will have higher reimbursement (from 434 to 476 cases per 100,000 population between years 2005 and 2008), and a small decline in use of procedures with lower reimbursement (from 593 to 565 cases per 100,000 population between years 2005 and 2008).