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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Cardiol. 2018 Oct 20;40(2):357–365. doi: 10.1007/s00246-018-2011-8

Table 2.

Total, pre-, and post-transplant hospitalization costs

Adjusted Costs
Low Cost High Cost Total
Centers N=8 N=16 N=24 p-value*
Patients N=705 (32.7%) N=1451 (67.3%) N=2156
Total cost $388,114 ($307,145 – $505,929) $642,798 ($476,205 – $890,401) $540,459 ($393,777 – $789,340) <0.001
Pre-transplant costs $119,007 ($65,521 – $227,147) $224,212 ($115,754 – $398,185) $183,411 ($93,546 – $349,024) <0.001
Post-transplant costs $259,359 ($217,936 – $305,586) $397,886 ($312,355 – $503,825) $341,033 ($265,884 – $459,600) <0.001
*

p-values from the Wilcoxon rank sum test

Cost expressed as median (interquartile range), inflate to 2016 dollars