Evan A O'Donnell, Matthew J Best, Jason E Simon, Harry Liu, Xiaoran Zhang, April D Armstrong, Jon J P Warner, Adam Z Khan, Catherine J Fedorka, Michael B Gottschalk, Jacob Kirsch, John Costouros, Mohamad Y Fares, Ana Paula Beck da Silva Etges, Uma Srikumaran, Eric R Wagner, Porter Jones, Derek A Haas, Joseph A Abboud
BACKGROUND: In January 2021, the US Medicare program approved reimbursement of outpatient total shoulder arthroplasties (TSA), including anatomic and reverse TSAs. It remains unclear whether shifting TSAs from the inpatient to outpatient setting has affected clinical outcomes. Herein, we describe the rate of outpatient TSA growth and compare inpatient and outpatient TSA complications, readmissions, and mortality. METHODS: Medicare fee-for-service claims for 2019-2022Q1 were analyzed to identify the trends in outpatient TSAs and to compare 90-day postoperative complications, all-cause hospital readmissions, and mortality between outpatients and inpatients...
August 23, 2023: Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery