Medicare’s Reimbursement System Equates Outpatient TKA with Outpatient UKA
Reimbursement under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System fails to account for the higher level of complexity in performing total knee arthroplasty compared with unicompartmental knee arthroplasty – which could be quite costly for facilities, according to a study from The Rothman Institute.
Source:ICJR
