Table 3.
Procedural costs and fees for an IBD IIT in the US. Survey conducted in 2014/2015 at 15 academic IBD sites of the CCFA CRA.
| Costs ($) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Procedure/Fees | Mean | Max |
| Upper-endoscopy + biopsy | 2682 | 5500 |
| Colonoscopy + biopsy | 3235 | 6000 |
| Sigmoidoscopy + biopsy | 1983 | 3851 |
| MR-Enterography | 2312 | 3851 |
| CT-Enterography | 1745 | 6032 |
| Chest x-ray | 187 | 491 |
| Coordinator/hr | 94 | 250 |
| PI/hr | 177 | 300 |
| Clinic space/hr | 119 | 200 |
| Pharmacy start up | 2037 | 2893 |
| Site start up | 4698 | 8000 |
Abbreviations: PI, principal investigator; MR, magnet resonance tomography; CT, computed tomography.