https://www.selleckchem.com/pr....oducts/ly3009120.htm
BACKGROUND In November 2019, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced total hip arthroplasty (THA) will be removed from the inpatient-only list. This may lead to avoidance of patients who have prolonged hospitalizations and discharge to skilled nursing facilities or push providers to unsafely push patients to outpatient surgery centers. Disparities in hip arthroplasty may worsen as patients are "risk stratified" preoperatively to minimize cost outliers. We aimed to evaluate which patient characteristics are associated with