Enhanced Selection of Candidates for Same Day and Outpatient Total Knee Arthroplasty

Medicare removed total knee arthroplasty (TKA) from its inpatient-only list and private insurers created ambulatory surgical codes; these changes bring about logistical challenges for TKA episode planning. We identified preoperatively determined factors associated with hospital length of stay (LOS) for 1) same day discharge (SDD) and 2) inpatient TKA defined by Medicare ’s two-midnight rule benchmark.

Source: The Journal of Arthroplasty - October 8, 2019 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Meredith Grogan Moore, David P. Brigati, Tom J. Crijns, Thomas R. Vetter, Randall Schultz, Kevin J. Bozic Source Type: research