Table 1.
Total Trends for Increasing Yearly Payments
| Year | Sum Payments ($) | No. of Payments | Mean Payment ($) | Surgeons (N) | Median Yearly Payment (25th-75th Quartiles), $ | P a |
| 2014 | $5,953,864.34 | 6316 | $942.66 | 509 | $460.91 (104.17-2731.80) | — |
| 2015 | $5,886,575.49 | 6592 | $892.99 | 519 | $517.21 (141.88-3150.41) | 1.000a |
| 2016 | $8,124,671.86 | 6663 | $1219.37 | 495 | $ 879.85 (144.12-4635.37) | 0.030a,b |
| 2017 | $5,416,303.52 | 6622 | $817.93 | 546 | $ 455.93 (118.40-2856.39) | 1.000a |
| 2018 | $8,463,776.15 | 8680 | $975.09 | 555 | $ 933.81 (161.42-5660.90) | <0.001a,b |
| 2019 | $7,531,206.50 | 10,124 | $743.90 | 584 | $1284.06 (202.03-5557.73) | <0.001a,b |
The Jonckheere-Terpstra test for ordered alternatives demonstrated increase median yearly payment with increasing years (P < 0.001).
a
Statistical significance reached.
b
The pairwise Mann-Whitney U test compared with 2014.