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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 20.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Invest. 2016 Apr 11;34(4):189–196. doi: 10.3109/07357907.2016.1166232

Table 3.

Changes in utilization and cost of image-guide percutaneous liver biopsy from 2006 to 2012.

Year No. of image-
guided PLB
claims		 No. cancer
patients in the
dataset		 No. of image-
guided PLB per
10,000 cancer
patients		 Median cost
(IQR) of image-
guided PLB
2006 2,228 476,161 47 $940 (862)
2007 2,554 517,386 49 $989 (962)
2008 3,263 583,181 56 $1,051 (1016)
2009 4,007 623,830 64 $1,087 (999)
2010 4,897 708,736 69 $1,103 (1114)
2011 5,258 796,057 66 $1,134 (1136)
2012 5,410 790,295 68 $1,176 (1094)
Total 27,617 4,495,646 N/A N/A