Variation in Estimated Surgical Procedure Times Across Patient Characteristics and Surgeon Specialty.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The time involved in performing a procedure is a key factor in determining physician payments by Medicare. However, there are long-standing concerns regarding the accuracy of the time estimates generated by the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee surveys that are used in the valuation process, and there have been calls to use other data sources to estimate procedure times.

Objective

To compare estimated procedure times that come from claims with the times used in Medicare's valuation process.

Design and setting

Building off prior work using Medicare fee-for-service claims, procedure times were estimated from linked anesthesia claims data for 1349 different Current Procedure Terminology codes that are typicall

SUBMITTER: Crespin DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8892359 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature