Published in:
01-03-2017 | Pearls
Shelf Pricing for Distal Radius Fracture Implants
Author:
Pedro K. Beredjiklian, MD
Published in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Issue 3/2017
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Excerpt
With ongoing efforts to improve value in orthopaedic surgery, there is a growing focus on the costs associated with the delivery of medical care. For example, the recent introduction of bundled-care payment programs for total joint arthroplasty represents an effort by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and other insurers to hold the physician financially accountable [
1]. Of the total expenditures in orthopaedic surgery, implants are by far the largest contributor, with some studies estimating the implant to account for up to 87% of the total cost of the surgical procedure [
4]. …