Methods: This study used an employer-sponsored insurance claims database to analyze
billing data of commercially insured patients who underwent elective orthopaedic surgery …

Purpose To categorize and trend annual out-of-pocket expenditures for arthroscopic rotator
cuff repair (RCR) patients relative to total healthcare utilization (THU) reimbursement and …

“The triple bottom line” is an approach to mitigate the environmental consequences of any
business endeavor by considering three important stakeholders-Profit, People, and Planet …

Purpose To categorize and trend annual out-of-pocket expenditures for arthroscopic rotator
cuff repair (RCR) patients relative to total healthcare utilization (THU) reimbursement and …

Background Recent literature has shown the advantages of outpatient surgery for many
shoulder and elbow procedures, including cost savings with equivalent safety in …

Ambulatory surgery has several advantages, such as diminishing the patients' burden,
shortening the hospital stay, improving the bed turnover rate, and reducing the rate of …

Background: The rate of outpatient total joint arthroplasty procedures, including those
performed at ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) and hospital outpatient departments, is …

Background There is growing interest in transitioning various surgical procedures to the
outpatient care setting. However, for Medicare patients, the site of service for surgical …

Background Out-of-pocket (OOP) costs can be substantial financial burdens for patients and
may even cause patients to delay or forgo necessary medical procedures. Although overall …

Objective Orthopaedic surgery has high rate of utilization of the outpatient settings including
ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) and hospital outpatient departments (HOPD). We seek to …