Introduction: We sought to measure the revenues, costs, and contribution margins (CMs) for major inpatient cardiovascular procedures in the Medicare population in years 2016-2019, evaluate the differences in CMs across procedures, and identify temporal trends in CMs.
Methods: Claim-level costs were calculated using cost-to-charge ratios and subsequently Winsorized to adjust for outliers, and CMs were assessed as the difference between revenue and costs.
Results and discussion: We found that revenues, costs, and CMs vary widely across major inpatient cardiovascular procedures and that rapidly proliferating cardiovascular procedures contribute sizeable net CMs to US hospitals.
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