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Cost of heart bypass surgery by state

Heart Bypass coverage/benefit example, built from de-identified explanation of benefits data from a patient in TX who received this care in summer 2019.

State inpatient hospital
Avg Cash Price
$52,023
$70,397
$58,874
$51,572
$64,610
$56,869
$62,226
$60,466
$59,937
$57,125
$53,544
$54,156
$52,619
$59,720
$54,479
$49,517
$51,277
$52,469
$58,222
$52,597
$61,926
$63,814
$58,779
$66,158
$52,914
$52,291
$54,407
$53,171
$56,172
$56,345
$68,258
$51,867
$64,226
$51,550
$57,281
$53,599
$57,359
$58,506
$60,377
$64,359
$54,930
$51,182
$51,622
$55,788
$58,138
$57,075
$55,521
$61,931
$55,560
$58,645
$57,091

* Savings estimate based on a study of more than 1 billion claims comparing self-pay (or cash pay) prices of a frequency-weighted market basket of procedures to insurer-negotiated rates for the same. Claims were collected between July 2017 and July 2019. R.Lawrence Van Horn, Arthur Laffer, Robert L.Metcalf. 2019. The Transformative Potential for Price Transparency in Healthcare: Benefits for Consumers and Providers. Health Management Policy and Innovation, Volume 4, Issue 3.

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