Hospital and Surgeon Medicare Reimbursement Trends for Total Joint Arthroplasty

BackgroundOver 1 million total joint arthroplasties (TJAs) are performed every year in the United States, creating Medicare cost concerns for policy makers. The purpose of this study is to evaluate recent trends in Medicare utilization and reimbursements to hospitals/surgeons for TJAs between 2012 and 2017.MethodsWe tracked annual Medicare claims and payments to TJA surgeons using publicly available Medicare databases and aggregated data at the...