Quantiles of incremental daily hospital charges versus year of discharge. Charges adjusted to 2012 values using the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (Division of Consumer Prices and Price Indexes. August 2012. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, DC. Available at: www.bls.gov/CPI/cpifact4.htm. Accessed August 12, 2013.) for health care. Incremental daily charges were defined as the difference in daily charges among each respective matched perioperative myocardial infarction (PMI)/healthy pair. USD = U.S. dollars.