Yup, and if course it varies. Complications are a huge driver of costs, so making marginal improvements to the complication rate (either by improving the standa

Yup, and if course it varies. Complications are a huge driver of costs, so making marginal improvements to the complication rate (either by improving the standard of care OR by insisting that you go to a place with a low complication rate) can have an outsize impact on the cost of care in the aggregate. Companies like ConsultingMD (horrible name, http://consultingmd.com http://consultingmd.com) are taking this approach to reducing costs.