Table 3.
National Costs and Quality Rates With Caseloads Necessary to Detect a 10% Relative Difference in Costs or Quality
| Ambulatory Costs | Mammography | Hemoglobin A1c Testing | Preventable Hospitalization | Congestive Heart Failure 30-Day Hospital Readmission | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National costs or rates | $3055a | 69.5b | 63.5b | 4.1b | 8.3b |
| Caseload required to detect a 10% difference, No. | 2526 | 328 | 438 | 19 069 | 8874 |
a
National mean ambulatory costs based on Medicare Part B expenditures of all patients from the 2005 Continuous Medicare History Sample.
b
National rates are shown as the percentage of eligible Medicare patients for each quality measure in the 2005 Part B 20% sample.