82 benchmarks to know on procedure, case volume

 Here are 82 benchmarks to know on procedure and case volume from several sources across the industry.

A Leerink Partners survey fielded questions to 47 hospital administrators on bundled payments to detail the procedure volume for outpatient surgical procedures. Here are statistics on the percent of procedures performed in outpatient or ASC settings, comparing the past 12 months with the increase expected in the next 12:

Hip
Past 12 months:
1. ASC: 7 percent
2. Outpatient: 17 percent

Next 12 months:
3. ASC: 7 percent
4. Outpatient: 19 percent

Knee
Past 12 months:
5. ASC: 12 percent
6. Outpatient: 25 percent

Next 12 months:
7. ASC: 13 percent
8. Outpatient: 26 percent

Spine
Past 12 months:
9. ASC: 10 percent
10. Outpatient: 20 percent

Next 12 months:
11. ASC: 11 percent
12. Outpatient: 20 percent

Cardiac surgery
Past 12 months:
13. ASC: 9 percent
14. Outpatient: 9 percent

Next 12 months:
15. ASC: 7 percent
16. Outpatient: 12 percent

Interventional cardiology
Past 12 months:
17. ASC: 6 percent
18. Outpatient: 31 percent

Next 12 months
19. ASC: 6 percent
20. Outpatient: 34 percent

Electrophysiology
Past 12 months:
21.ASC: 9 percent
22. Outpatient: 39 percent

Next 12 months:
23.ASC: 10 percent
24. Outpatient: 40 percent

ENT
Past 12 months:
25. ASC: 15 percent
26. Outpatient: 46 percent

Next 12 months:
27. ASC: 16 percent
28. Outpatient: 47 percent

Gynecology
Past 12 months:
29. ASC: 15 percent
30. Outpatient: 39 percent

Next 12 months:
31. ASC: 17 percent
32. Outpatient: 39 percent

Urology
Past 12 months:
33. ASC: 15 percent
34. Outpatient 42 percent

Next 12 months:
35. ASC: 17 percent
36. Outpatient: 43 percent

Other
Past 12 months:
37. ASC: 15 percent
38. Outpatient: 28 percent

Next 12 months:
39. ASC: 16 percent
40. Outpatient: 28 percent

VMG Health's 2018 Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study details statistics on surgical cases per operating room annually and per day, which is based off an analysis of more than 275 licensed freestanding ASCs, covering more than 1.3 million cases.

Surgical cases per OR per year
41. Mean: 1,184
42. 25th percentile: 787
43. Median: 1,104
44. 75th percentile: 1,507
45. 90th percentile: 1,883

By region:
46. Atlantic: 1,225
47. Midwest: 1,063
48. Mountain: 1,042
49. Northeast: 1,324
50. Pacific: 1,111
51. South: 1,098

Surgical cases per day for 250 days
52. Mean: 4.7
53. 25th percentile: 3.1
54. Median: 4.4
55. 75th percentile: 6
56. 90th percentile: 7.5

By region:
57. Atlantic: 4.9
58. Midwest: 4.3
59. Mountain: 4.2
60. Northeast: 5.3
61. Pacific: 4.4
62. South: 4.4

A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission analysis of physician/supplier standard analytic files reflect policy changes making services that were separately payable in 2013 packaged with another service in 2014.

Volume of services (in millions)

63. 2011: 6.7
64. 2012: 6.9
65. 2013 (actual): 6.9
66. 2013 (adjusted): 6.3
67. 2014: 6.2
68. 2015: 6.3
69. 2016: 6.4

Volume per 1,000 fee-for-service beneficiaries (reflects the volume of separately payable services in each year)

70. 2011: 206.1
71. 2012: 209.2
72. 2013 (actual): 210.3
73. 2013 (adjusted): 189.6
74. 2014: 187.8
75. 2015: 191.2
76. 2016: 189.9

Percent change in volume per fee-for-service beneficiary from previous year (assuming that year and the previous year had the same definition of separately payable)

77. 2011: 1.7 percent
78. 2012: 1.5 percent
79. 2013 (actual): 0.5 percent
80. 2014: -0.9 percent
81. 2015: 1.8 percent
82. 2016: -0.5 percent

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