Free-flap breast reconstruction: cost analysis in the Swiss healthcare system

CONCLUSION: The DRG pricing scheme evolves through annual revisions. Progressively, more specific codes were created and used, allowing a better cost coverage for the procedure. Since 2017, the use of the dedicated code J01B has resulted in adequate cost coverage of the procedure. Since it has been widely accepted that DIEP breast reconstruction has advantages such as high patient satisfaction, we encourage the inclusion of this procedure in the reconstructive arsenal of breast cancer centres in Switzerland.PMID:34846114 | DOI:10.4414/smw.2021.20530
Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - Category: General Medicine Authors: Source Type: research