The Cost of Hip and Knee Revision Arthroplasty by Diagnosis-Related Groups: Comparing Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing and Traditional Accounting

Traditional hospital cost accounting (TA) has innate disadvantages that limits the ability to meaningfully measure care pathways and quality improvement. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) allows a meticulous account of costs in primary total joint arthroplasty (TJA). However, differences between TA and TDABC have not been examined in revision hip and knee TJA (rTJA). We aimed to compare total costs of rTJA by diagnosis-related group (DRG), measured by TDABC versus TA.

Source: The Journal of Arthroplasty - March 19, 2021 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Christopher Fang, Jonathan Shaker, Jacob Drew, Andrew Jawa, David Mattingly, Eric L. Smith Source Type: research