Economic Value of Prosthetic Services among Medicare Beneficiaries: A Claims-Based Retrospective Cohort Study
| Autor: | Matt Shimer, Allen Dobson, Joan E. DaVanzo, Audrey M. El-Gamil |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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030506 rehabilitation
medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject MEDLINE Biomedical Engineering Artificial Limbs Context (language use) Medicare Military medicine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Outcome Assessment Health Care Health care Humans Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Economic impact analysis Retrospective Studies Veterans media_common Selection bias business.industry Public health Rehabilitation Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Retrospective cohort study Health Care Costs General Medicine Payment United States Lower Extremity Family medicine Emergency medicine Propensity score matching Etiology 0305 other medical science business Delivery of Health Care |
| Zdroj: | JPO Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics. 31:P94-P100 |
| ISSN: | 1040-8800 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/jpo.0000000000000239 |
| Popis: | There are few studies of the economic impact or value of lower extremity prosthetic services. Results from this study can inform the value proposition concerning prosthetic services within military health, where over 40,000 Veterans with limb-loss receive care for their amputations through the Veterans Administration health care system.To determine the extent to which Medicare patients who received selected prosthetic services had less health care utilization, lower Medicare payments, and/or fewer negative outcomes compared to matched patients not receiving these services.This retrospective cohort analysis using Medicare claims data (2007-2010) and propensity score matching techniques to control for observable selection bias based on etiological diagnosis, comorbidities, patient characteristics, and historical health care utilization one year before the etiological diagnosis.Patients who received lower extremity prostheses had comparable Medicare episode payments ($6,099 per-member-per-month for study group, $6,015 per-member-per-month for comparison group) and better outcomes than patients who did not receive prostheses. Study group patients were more likely to receive extensive outpatient therapy than comparison group patients (p0.05). Receiving physical therapy is associated with fewer hospitalizations and emergency room visits, and less facility-based care (p0.05), essentially offsetting the cost of the prosthetic over a 12-month time frame. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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