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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Cardiol. 2014 May 2;114(2):266–271. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2014.04.031

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Table Medicare expenditures, overall and for imaging studies

Variable Overall (n = 11,525)
Mean (SD) Median (Q1; Q3)
Overall expenditures
    Pre-procedure, 6m prior 9,201 (11,023) 5,358 (2,643; 11,742)
    Day-of-procedure 14,455 (7,441) 13,283 (11,670; 16,574)
    Post-procedure, 6m following* 9,713 (15,595) 4,146 (1,952; 12,443)
Imaging expenditures
Peri-procedure, 30d prior + day-of 884 (455) 747 (546; 1,111)
Pre-procedure, 30d prior† 375 (403) 223 (88; 577)
Intra-procedure‡ 509 (191) 527 (420; 552)
Post-procedure, 6m following* 206 (334) 0 (0; 306)

d = day; m = month; Q = quartile; SD = standard deviation.

*

Only reported for 8792 patients with complete 6m follow-up.

†

Includes day-of-ablation transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE)/trans- thoracic echocardiogram (TTE) procedures.

‡

Includes intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) and electroanatomic mapping (EAM).