Direct Medical Costs of Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease Surgery in a Belgian University Hospital

World Journal for Pediatric & Congenital Heart Surgery
Ruben WillemsLieven Annemans

Abstract

The recent trend to optimize the efficiency of health-care systems requires objective clinical and economic data. European data on the cost of surgical procedures to repair or palliate congenital heart disease in pediatric patients are lacking. A single-center study was conducted. Bootstrap analysis of variance and bootstrap independent t test assessed the excess direct medical costs associated with minor and major complications in nine surgical procedure types, from a health-care payer perspective. Generalized linear models with log-link function and inverse Gaussian family were used to determine associated covariates with the total hospitalization cost. Descriptive statistics show the repartition between out-of-pocket expenditures and reimbursed costs. Four hundred thirty-seven patients were included. Mean hospitalization costs ranged from €11,106 (atrial septal defect repair) to €33,865 (Norwood operation). Operations with major complications yielded excess costs compared to operations with no complications, ranging from €7,105 (+65.2%) for a truncus arteriosus repair to €27,438 (+251.7%) for a tetralogy of Fallot repair. Differences in costs were limited between operations with minor versus no complications. Age at procedur...Continue Reading

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