Figure 1

Actual costs and predicted results of closing lower volume hospitals and redirecting patients to higher volume facilities in 2000. ^a Predictions of total costs and patients affected if patients in low-volume hospitals were instead treated in a hospital with the median procedure volume of medium and high-volume hospitals in year 2000. ^b Predictions of total costs and patients affected if patients in low and medium-volume hospitals were instead treated in a hospital with the median procedure volume of high-volume hospitals in year 2000.