AdvaMed: Device Costs Not Cause Of Hospital Charge Variation-thegraysheet: The wide variation in hospital charges has been a hot-button issue since CMS released charge data for 100 of the most common Medicare inpatient procedures in May. While some have pointed to medical device-related procedures as the primary culprit for such variation, a recent industry-sponsored study shows that device-intensive hospital admissions actually had less variability than other admissions.
