In Hospital Outcomes of Total Hip Arthroplasty in the Medicaid Population.

In conclusion, we discovered that the rate of Medicaid insurance in patients undergoing primary THA was stable through 2010, prior to the Affordable Care Act. We found Medicaid THA patients had longer length of stay, despite being a mean 15 years younger than the non-Medicaid cohort. Medicaid insurance status should be factored into risk adjustment models to avoid creating additional disincentive to treat the Medicaid population. (Journal of Surgical Orthopaedic Advances 28(4):281-284, 2019). PMID: 31886765 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of surgical orthopaedic advances - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: J Surg Orthop Adv Source Type: research