RT Book, Section A1 Laur, John A1 Dexter, Franklin A2 Hadzic, Admir SR Print(0) ID 1141737873 T1 Regional Anesthesia, Cost, Operating Room, and Personnel Management T2 Hadzic's Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management, 2e YR 2017 FD 2017 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071717595 LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141737873 RD 2024/03/29 AB Whether in a private practice anesthesia group, academic institution, hospital organization, or some hybrid of these, understanding how regional anesthesia (RA) affects your budget and costs, as well as the perceptions and outcomes of patients, is important for planning and conducting economic discussions with health care administrators and surgeons. This chapter reviews the costs and economics of RA and describes the concepts that apply to anesthesia providers and groups across the globe. Billing is not included as each country chooses how it bills and is paid for RA procedures. Moreover, we focus on outpatient anesthesia, for which cost savings can be better defined. While facilities may benefit financially from RA applied in inpatient settings, such billing and cost issues are local. The economics of heterogeneity in bringing down costs for measured reductions in length of stay (LOS) were reviewed recently.1,2,3,4 In brief, although RA can reduce patient LOS, Taheri et al demonstrated that for patients with an average LOS of 4 days or more, the majority of costs occur in the initial days of the hospital stay, and only 3% of costs are incurred in the concluding hospital days.1