Results showed septic hip revision was more expensive and had a longer length of stay compared with aseptic revision. Single-stage reimplantation presented the best value for society for periprosthetic joint infection treatment.
“We definitely need adjustments in reimbursement on the coding and hopefully that will reflect the reimbursement,” Carlos A. Higuera-Rueda, MD, said in his presentation at the Musculoskeletal Infection Society Annual Meeting.
Higuera-Rueda and colleagues retrospectively categorized 473 patients who underwent approximately 600 unilateral total hip revisions