Cost of abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in Canada and the United States

Similar Cost for Elective Open and Endovascular AAA Repair in a Population-Based Setting

“…23 Direct comparison of the observed cost with previous reports is cumbersome because differences in included costs are regular and differences in healthcare systems can affect cost. 24,25 No other population-based study exists to our knowledge, and all other studies report cost of treatment in comparable patient groups in OR and EVAR. Most USbased studies do not include physicians' fees, as this cost is billed separately.…”

The in-hospital costs of treating high-risk patients with fenestrated and branched endografts

“…Detailed cost data (in Canadian dollars) was extracted from the hospital's case-costing system, which is used as an Ontario Provincial reference site. 14 The proprietary accounting system (Transition cost accounting system 15,16 ) provides direct and indirect costs at the "functional center" level. Each hospital department (eg, operating room, radiology, laboratory, pharmacy, nursing care, allied health, and patient food) is regarded as a functional cost center.…”

Outcomes and Cost of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery in the United States and Canada

“…The methods used by the Transition accounting system to determine cost have been described previously. 8 Briefly, the Transition system uses a 6-step method to assign total unit costs to products and services. 7,9 In the first step of this costing procedure, hospital departments are classified as direct cost centers or overhead cost centers.…”

“…This increase is largely due to higher administrative costs, which is consistent with the current findings in the literature. To date, few studies 8,15 have compared the costs of treatment of different diagnoses and procedures in Canada and the United States. To our knowledge, no previous studies have compared the costs of CABG in Canada and the United States.…”