Estimating the Current Cost of Endoscopic Sinus Surgery in the US – A Claims-Based Approach

In recent years, increases in the cost of medical procedures have exceeded the rate of inflation, 1 and new ESS procedures have become available (e.g. drug-eluting stents), or their use more widespread (e.g. balloon ). Therefore, 2011 publications estimating cost for ESS ($9,333 in 2017-adjusted US dollars for the period 0-45d after ESS)2, may no longer be valid. Given the importance of this input for economic evaluation of CRS treatments, the...