Ninety-day and one-year healthcare utilization and costs after knee arthroplasty.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study examined ninety-day and one-year postoperative healthcare utilization and costs following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) from the health sector and patient perspectives.

Design

This study relied on: 1) patient-reported medical resource utilization data from diaries in the Knee Arthroplasty Pain Coping Skills Training (KASTPain) trial; and 2) Medicare fee schedules. Medicare payments, patient cost-sharing, and patient time costs were estimated. Generalized linear mixed models were used to identify baseline predictors of costs.

Results

In the first ninety days following TKA, patients had an average of 29.7 outpatient visits and 6% were hospitalized. Mean total costs during this period summed to $3,720, the majority attributed to outpatient visit cos

SUBMITTER: Hung A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6750955 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature