Surgeries in Hospital-Based Ambulatory Surgery and Hospital Inpatient Settings, 2014 #223
Surgeries in Hospital-Based Ambulatory Surgery and Hospital Inpatient Settings, 2014
Claudia A. Steiner, M.D., M.P.H., Zeynal Karaca, Ph.D., Brian J. Moore, Ph.D., Melina C. Imshaug, M.P.H., and Gary Pickens, Ph.D.
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- In 2014, 17.2 million hospital visits (ambulatory or inpatient) included invasive, therapeutic surgeries. Over half of these visits (57.8 percent) occurred in a hospital-owned ambulatory surgery (AS) setting, and the remaining (42.2 percent) were inpatient.
- Private insurance was the primary expected payer for 48.6 percent of AS visits. Medicare was the most common payer among inpatient surgical stays (43.4 percent).
- The following procedures were among the most common invasive, therapeutic ambulatory surgeries:
- Lens and cataract procedures (99.9 percent performed in AS settings)
- Excision of semilunar cartilage of knee (98.7 percent in AS)
- Tonsillectomy (95.6 percent in AS)
- Decompression peripheral nerve (95.2 percent in AS)
- Inguinal and femoral hernia repair (92.0 percent in AS)
- Incision or fusion of joint, destruction of joint lesion (80.4 percent in AS)
- Operating room (OR) procedures of skin and breast (78.5 percent in AS)
- Muscle, tendon, and soft tissue OR procedures (71.9 percent in AS)
- Repair of diaphragmatic, incisional, and umbilical hernia (61.1 percent in AS)
- Cholecystectomy (60.8 percent in AS)
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