Background As the current health care system evolves toward cost-containment and value-
based approaches, evaluating trends in physician reimbursements will be critical for …

Background Recent efforts to contain health care costs and move toward value-based health
care have intensified, with a continued focus on Medicare expenditures, especially for high …

Background There is a paucity of information regarding financial trends in orthopedic upper
extremity surgery. If progress is to be made in advancing agreeable reimbursement models …

Methods: The Physician Fee Schedule Look-Up Tool from the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services was queried for each Current Procedural Terminology code used in …

Background Shoulder arthroplasty has grown in popularity in the past 2 decades, especially
following US Food and Drug Administration approval of reverse total shoulder arthroplasty …

Purpose To better understand the relative increases in rotator cuff charges and to analyze
national and regional trends between hospital, anesthesiologist, and surgeon charges and …

Understanding trends in reimbursement is critical to the financial sustainability of orthopedic
practices. Little research has examined physician fee trends over time for orthopedic …

Background The relationship between surgeon and hospital charges and payments for total
shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) has not been well examined. The goal of this study was to report …

Background A previous study revealed that patients perceived physician reimbursement to
be much higher than current Medicare schedules for hip and knee replacement. The …

Background Arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (ARCR) is one of the most common orthopedic
procedures in the general population. Despite its prevalence, the price of ARCR varies …