Table 3.
Medicare payments in first year after prostate cancer surgery, patients with positive costs*
| Category | MRP (N=991) |
ORP (N=4,454) |
Difference | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Mean | (SD) | n | Mean | (SD) | Mean | (SD) | p | |
| Total | 991 | $16,919 | $20,510 | 4454 | $15,692 | $12,720 | $1,227 | $14,452 | 0.08 |
| Surgery | 991 | $10,968 | $13,647 | 4454 | $10,217 | $5,944 | $751 | $7,923 | 0.02 |
| Other cancer therapy | |||||||||
| Chemotherapy/bisphosphonates | 52 | $1,870 | $3,231 | 327 | $2,813 | $3,872 | −$943 | $3,792 | 0.01 |
| Radiotherapy | 65 | $4,690 | $8,170 | 373 | $5,822 | $8,713 | −$1,132 | $8,635 | 0.18 |
| Androgen deprivation therapy | - | $410 | ----- | 26 | $1,406 | $1,239 | −$996 | $1,239 | ----- |
| Inpatient care | 129 | $20,415 | $26,238 | 664 | $14,361 | $15,631 | $6,054 | $17,782 | 0.03 |
| Other | |||||||||
| Home health care | 269 | $1,097 | $1,829 | 586 | $1,945 | $1,750 | −$848 | $1,776 | <.0001 |
| Other | 986 | $2,602 | $3,112 | 4433 | $2,387 | $2,884 | $215 | $2,927 | 0.67 |
*
Notes: Mean for each category based on observations with costs greater than $0 within category.
Cells with counts ≤11 and relevant adjacent cells are not shown, in adherence with SEER-Medicare Data Use Agreement
All costs in 2006 US dollars, adjusted for inflation and geographic variability.
P-values for tests of difference in mean of natural log of costs.
MRP: minimally invasive radical prostatectomy
ORP: open radical prostatectomy