SAN FRANCISCO — With the current trend in reimbursement rates for primary and revision total joint arthroplasty, surgeons may earn below minimum wage for primary TJA by 2030, according to results presented here.
Evan C. Catton, BS, and colleagues created a historical view of reimbursement for primary and revision TJAs using CMS reimbursement data from 1992 to 2023. Researchers converted all monetary values to 2023 U.S. dollars to account for inflation and used polynomial forecast equations to predict the future of TJA reimbursement to 2030. Researchers used Relative Value Scale Update