Procedures to Treat Benign Uterine Fibroids in Hospital Inpatient and Hospital-Based Ambulatory Surgery Settings, 2013

This Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Statistical Brief presents data on four surgical procedures to treat benign uterine fibroids among women aged 18–54 years in two hospital settings: hospital inpatient and hospital-based ambulatory surgery. Our analysis is limited to hospitals within 13 States—representing more than one-fourth of the U.S. population—that included data on surgical treatment of benign uterine fibroids in the inpatient and ambulatory surgery settings. We focus on four common surgical treatments of benign uterine fibroids: hysterectomy, myomectomy, uterine fibroid embolization, and endometrial ablation. An overview of characteristics of women with benign uterine fibroids who underwent one of these surgical treatments in 2013 is provided by hospital setting. We present trends in the four surgical procedures to treat benign uterine fibroids by hospital setting from 2005 through 2013. The distribution of these four procedures by patient race/ethnicity and expected primary payer in each hospital setting is provided for 2013. Only differences of at least 10 percent are noted in the text.