Changes in Ability of Hospitals to Provide Pricing for Total Hip Arthroplasty From 2012 to 2016

Safiyyah Mahomed; Jaime Rosenthal; John Matelski; Peter Cram

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.1473

Changes in Ability of Hospitals to Provide Pricing for Total Hip Arthroplasty From 2012 to 2016

JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Aug 1;178(8):1132-1133. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.1473.

Authors

Safiyyah Mahomed¹, Jaime Rosenthal², John Matelski³, Peter Cram^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ MD Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² MD Program, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Sinai Health System and University Health Network, Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
⁴ Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

This survey study examines whether a group of 122 hospitals originally surveyed in 2011 had improved in their ability to provide price for a total hip arthroplasty when resurveyed in 2016.

Publication types

Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip / economics*
Costs and Cost Analysis / trends*
Female
Hip Prosthesis / economics*
Hospital Costs / trends*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Retrospective Studies