Short-Term Out-of-Pocket and Total Costs of Care After Ablation, Resection, or Transplant for Early-Stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A National SEER-Medicare Cost Comparison.
Charalel R, Mushlin A, Zheng X, Mao J, Carlos R, Brown R, Ibrahim S, Fortune B, Talenfeld A, Madoff D, Johnson M, Sedrakyan A. Short-Term Out-of-Pocket and Total Costs of Care After Ablation, Resection, or Transplant for Early-Stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A National SEER-Medicare Cost Comparison. American Journal Of Roentgenology 2024, 223: e2431272. PMID: 38899842, DOI: 10.2214/ajr.24.31272.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEarly-stage hepatocellular carcinomaHepatocellular carcinomaPost-procedure periodIndex procedureOut-of-pocket costsPatient out-of-pocket costsDrivers of high costsDays post-procedureSubgroup of patientsTreated with ablationPropensity-matched subgroupsU.S. population-based studyPopulation-based studySurgical resectionMultivariate linear regression modelSurgical treatmentPrognostic indicatorPost-procedureTreatment modalitiesTreatment optionsSEER-MedicareResectionMultivariate analysisTransplantationPropensity-score