Disparity of health services in patients with knee osteoarthritis before total knee arthroplasty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent evidence describes which interventions are driving insurance payments in the management of osteoarthritis (OA) before total knee arthroplasty (TKA); however, relatively little is known about how these costs are distributed among patients.

Methods

We reviewed the Humana claims database for patients who underwent primary TKA from 2009 to 2016. Insurance payments for treatment, imaging, and evaluation and management were calculated from OA diagnosis to TKA, the distribution of payments was determined, and a high-payment group was identified by determining the point at which patients began to account for a disproportionate percentage of payments. This group of high-payment patients was compared with remaining patients (low-payment patients) based on demographic

SUBMITTER: Warwick H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7083741 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature