Cost per Surgery

Reducing Surgical Site Infection

Definition

Formula: Dollars allocated to surgical accounting codes per month divided by the number of surgical cases.

 

Goal

Achieve no increase in direct costs, or increase in direct cost is less than the cost of surgical site infections prevented.

 

Data Collection Plan

Collect information from facility accounting information.

 

Sample Graph

 

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