Table 3:
All Payers: Median and Mean Physician Payments-per-wRVU by Breast Procedure
|
CATEGORY |
Commercial Payers | Governmental Payers |
p value ** |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile | Mean | SD | N | 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile | Mean | SD | p value* | ||
| Breast Free Flap s2068 | 356 | 240.72 | 321.61 | 449.51 | 380.79 | 238.13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tissue Expander 19357 | 2309 | 102.61 | 129.86 | 165.38 | 139.76 | 57.80 | 489 | 42.10 | 56.58 | 76.38 | 59.38 | 38.11 |
0.823 |
< 0.001 |
| TRAM Flap 19367 |
333 | 94.57 | 122.42 | 153.46 | 127.04 | 48.02 | 79 | 14.26 | 46.75 | 59.43 | 45.18 | 27.75 | < 0.001 | |
| Breast Free Flap 19364 |
103 | 92.01 | 121.54 | 173.84 | 150.30 | 205.85 | 41 | 28.69 | 49.61 | 68.35 | 133.01 | 492.65 | < 0.001 | |
| Latissimus Flap 19361 |
334 | 89.08 | 109.29 | 134.22 | 114.64 | 45.64 | 103 | 37.40 | 52.38 | 62.22 | 51.08 | 29.30 | < 0.001 | |
All values (other than n) are represented as dollars per wRVU; n = number of patients
Abbreviations: SD Standard Deviation, TRAM Transverse Rectus Abdominis
Kruskal-Wallis comparing governmental payments for breast procedures
Mann Whitney comparing commercial versus governmental payments per category, excluding s2068