Skip to main content

Table 8 Annual estimated lost chargeable minutes for entire healthcare campus

From: Observed rates of surgical instrument errors point to visualization tasks as being a critically vulnerable point in sterile processing and a significant cause of lost chargeable OR minutes

Est. % delays (Low)

Est. % delays (High)

Annual Cases

Ave. minutes per delay

Charge per minute

Est. lost charges per year (Low)

Est. lost charges per year (High)

21.82%

30.16%

15,950

10.16

$ 153.00

$ 5,409,590.40

$ 7,477,963.20

7.81%

11.32%

11,046

10.16

$ 153.00

$ 1,341,467.66

$ 1,944,156.03

Total

$ 6,751,058.06

$ 9,422,119.23