Hospital Financial Burden of Surgical Procedures for Periprosthetic Total Hip Arthroplasty Infection.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For reimbursement purposes, current coding fails to reflect the true complexity and resource utilization of hospital encounters for surgeries performed to treat periprosthetic total hip arthroplasty (THA) infection. Therefore, when compared to aseptic revisions, we sought to determine (1) Is length of stay (LOS) longer for septic surgeries? (2) Are septic procedures more expensive? and (3) How do different surgical procedures for infection compare with aseptic revisions on hospital LOS and charges?

Methods

Retrospective chart review of 596 unilateral THA reoperations (473 patients) performed at a single institution (January 2015 to November 2020). Demographics, professional (ie, physicians), and technical (ie, room, implants) hospital charges per case were compare

SUBMITTER: Villa JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11780107 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature