Should reimbursements for high-BMI total joint patients be adjusted?

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COMPENSATION SHOULD BE ADJUSTED FOR BMI-RELATED COSTS (Orthopedics This Week)
Researchers from Canada have examined the costs and outcomes of total hip arthroplasty (THA) among patients in different weight categories and concluded that physician pay should be tied to the costs and efforts required to treat overweight patients.
Their work, “Ninety-Day Costs, Reoperations, and Readmissions for Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty Patients of Varying Body Mass Index Levels,” appears in the November 24, 2018 edition of The Journal of Arthoplasty.
Edward Vasarhelyi, M.D., M.Sc. with the Universit...

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