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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Radiol. 2015 Jun;12(6):563–571. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2015.01.012

Figure 1. Relative Cost of Chest Port Insertion in an IR Suite vs. OR.

Figure 1

The relative cost to the hospital to place a chest port in an IR suite is significantly less than compared to in the operating room for all of the variables. (p =.0001). The average total cost for an OR placed chest port is almost 2 times the cost in an IR suite due to higher TFC, TVL, and TVS/O costs (IR-R and OR-R). The IR and OR pharmacy costs (TVL contributes minimally to total pharmacy cost) shows the same trend (IR-P and OR-P). The total hospital cost for chest port placement is significantly lower for IR than for OR (p = 0.001) (IR-R+P and OR-R+P).

TFC: Total Fixed Cost, TVS/O: Total Variable Supply + Other Cost, TVL: Total Variable Labor Cost of the Room, IR-R: IR Room cost, OR-R: OR Room cost, IR-P: IR Pharmacy cost, OR-P: OR pharmacy cost, IR-R+P: IR Room + Pharmacy cost, OR-R+P: IR Room + Pharmacy cost