Top 10 Procedures Associated With Most Costly Hospital Stays

Here are the top ten procedures associated with the most costly stays in hospitals, with the mean charges for the hospital stay, according to 2003 statistics from 17 selected states.

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  1. Organ transplantation, including transplants of the lung, heart, spleen, intestine, liver and pancreas and excluding kidney, bone, corneal and bone marrow transplants — $275,621
  2. Tracheostomy — $240,010
  3. Bone marrow transplant — $207,622
  4. Destruction of lesion of retina — $197,169
  5. Ileostomy and enterostomy — $129,499
  6. Heart value procedures — $125,545
  7. Kidney transplant — $115,023
  8. Swan-Ganz catheterization — $105,421
  9. Extracorporeal circulation auxiliary — $99,057
  10. Gastronomy — $98,772


Source:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project.

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