Table 2 Base-case payment per red blood cell transfusion episode
From: Outpatient red blood cell transfusion payments among patients on chronic dialysis
Payments and Events | All patientsa(N= 3,283); All episodes (N = 7,049) | Min | Max | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | SD | Median | 25th percentile | 75th percentile | |||
Average payment per episode | |||||||
All payers | |||||||
Transfusion screening/monitoring | $193 | $616 | $34 | $0 | $189 | $0 | $22,673 |
Blood acquisition and administration | $615 | $1,237 | $289 | $11 | $801 | $0 | $30,962 |
Transfusion complications | $75 | $1,317 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $61,059 |
TOTAL screening, transfusion and complication payments | $854 | $2,060 | $427 | $53 | $1,065 | $0 | $74,452 |
Number of services per episode | |||||||
Transfusion screening/monitoring | 2.87 | 2.93 | 2.00 | 0.09 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
Blood acquisition and administration | 2.04 | 1.26 | 2.00 | 1.00 | 3.00 | 1.00 | 12.83 |