Arthritis care & research
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Arthritis care & research · Aug 2014
Cost offsets to medicare attributable to receipt of hip, knee, and shoulder arthroplasty.
To estimate trends in numbers of and Medicare payments for hip, knee, and shoulder arthroplasties for beneficiaries with osteoarthritis (OA) and potential savings to Medicare from arthroplasty during followup. ⋯ Provision of hip but not knee and shoulder arthroplasty generated savings to Medicare during followup, but even for hip arthroplasty, the cost offset during followup was small relative to the program cost for the procedure itself.