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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 3.

Adjusted total costs based on area of spending

Low cost High cost Total Range
Ratio
Centers N=8 N=16 N=24 p-value* Minimum Maximum Max/Min
Patients N=705 (32.7%) N=1451 (67.3%) N=2156
Pharmacy costs $32,067 ($24,746 – $46,996) $57,851 ($39,553 – $92,312) $47,561 ($31,788 – $76,439) <0.001 $25,014 $183,088 7.3
Lab costs $25,506 ($18,295 – $38,999) $46,405 ($30,969 – $76,515) $38,406 ($24,860 – $64,510) <0.001 $11,883 $86,478 7.3
Imaging costs $7,753 ($4,534 – $12,607) $15,739 ($9,579 – $25,113) $12,497 ($6,924 – $21,580) <0.001 $2,419 $31,581 13.1
Supply costs $12,982 ($7,166 – $26,101) $26,715 ($14,278 – $51,650) $21,324 ($10,985 – $43,379) <0.001 $3,530 $55,876 15.8
Clinical costs $154,025 ($113,877 – $194,001) $237,408 ($160,270 – $313,364) $199,927 ($136,490 – $275,670) <0.001 $78,569 $613,638 7.8
Other costs $113,694 ($79,976 – $169,980) $180,973 ($119,708 – $266,289) $156,859 ($102,020 – $241,452) <0.001 $76,712 $311,475 4.1
*

p-values from the Wilcoxon rank sum test

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