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Published in final edited form as: Appl Health Econ Health Policy. 2018 Aug;16(4):537–548. doi: 10.1007/s40258-018-0397-3

Table 1.

Unit costs per procedure and average monthly procedure volumes by site (costs in 2017 U.S. dollars)

Procedure		BTB	MKB	MR OD	CENAT
Clinical diagnostic assessment	Unit Cost	US$1.84	US$1.22
Clinical diagnostic assessment	Procedure Volume	500	500
Chest x-ray, automatic development *(manual development)**	Unit Cost	US$2.02	US$2.14 (US$2.06*)
	Procedure Volume	275 (chest) 531 (all x-rays)	200 (chest) 350 (all x-rays)
Smear Microscopy – FM	Unit Cost	US$1.56	US$1.93
Smear Microscopy – FM	Procedure Volume	500	300
Smear Microscopy – ZN	Unit Cost			US$1.26
Smear Microscopy – ZN	Procedure Volume			140
Xpert	Unit Cost	US$33.88	US$37.11
Xpert	Procedure Volume	40	25
Liquid Culture – MGIT	Unit Cost	US$22.83			US$11.63
Liquid Culture – MGIT	Procedure Volume	112			350
Follow-on work up for positive MGIT results and MTB identification	Unit Cost	US$14.72			US$11.63
	Procedure Volume (Follow-on work-up)	23			85
	Procedure Volume (MTB identification)	28			45
DST	Unit Cost				US$44.26
DST	Procedure Volume				23

• BTB: Battambang Provincial Referral Hospital; MKB: Mongkol Borei Provincial Referral Hospital; MR OD: Mong Russey Operational District Hospital; CENAT: National TB Control Program Lab

• At the time of the study, the GeneXpert instruments did not operate at maximum possible capacity every day at either the BTB or MKB site due to low specimen volumes received.