Association Between Hospital Monopoly Status, Patient Socioeconomic Disadvantage, and Total Joint Arthroplasty Price Disclosure.

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Peairs, Emily M

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Zhang, Gloria X

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Kerr, David

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Erickson, Melissa M

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Zhang, Yuqi

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Cerullo, Marcelo

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2024-08-14T15:38:54Z

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2024-08-14T15:38:54Z

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2023-10

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Introduction

In recent years, healthcare institutions and regulatory bodies have enacted cost transparency mandates for routine interventions such as total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty. However, disclosure rates remain low. This study examined the effect of financial characteristics of hospitals and the socioeconomic status of patients on price disclosure.

Methods

Hospitals conducting total hip arthroplasty/total knee arthroplasty, their quality ratings, and procedural volumes were identified using the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and linked to procedure-specific prices. Financial performance and the Area Deprivation Index (ADI) were used to correlate disclosure rates with hospital and patient characteristics. Hospital financial, operational, and patient summary statistics were compared by price-disclosure status using two-sample t -tests for continuous variables and Pearson chi-square test for categorical variables. The association between total joint arthroplasty price disclosure and hospital ADI was further evaluated using modified Poisson regression.

Results

A total of 1,425 hospitals certified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services were identified in the United States. 50.5% (n = 721) of hospitals had no published payer-specific price information. Hospitals in an area of higher socioeconomic disadvantage were more likely to disclose prices of total joint arthroplasty (incidence rate ratio = 0.966, 95% CI: 0.937 to 0.995, P = 0.024). Hospitals that were considered monopolies or were for-profit were less likely to disclose prices (IRR = 1.15, 95% CI: 1.030 to 1.280, P = 0.01; IRR = 1.256, 95% CI: 0.986 to 1.526, P = 0.038, respectively). When accounting for both ADI and monopoly status, hospitals with patients who had a higher ADI were more likely to disclose costs for a total joint arthroplasty, whereas for-profit hospitals or hospitals considered monopolies in their HSA were less likely to disclose prices.

Discussion

For nonmonopoly hospitals, a higher ADI correlated with a higher likelihood of price disclosure. However, for monopoly hospitals, there was no significant association between ADI and price disclosure.

Level of evidence

II.
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00124635-990000000-00699

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1067-151X

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1940-5480

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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/31370

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eng

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Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

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The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

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10.5435/jaaos-d-22-00953

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

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Humans

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Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip

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Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee

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Disclosure

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Aged

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Hospitals

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Medicare

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United States

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Socioeconomic Disparities in Health

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Association Between Hospital Monopoly Status, Patient Socioeconomic Disadvantage, and Total Joint Arthroplasty Price Disclosure.

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Journal article

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1019

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1026

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19

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Duke

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School of Medicine

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Staff

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Clinical Science Departments

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Orthopaedic Surgery

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Surgery

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Neurosurgery

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Published

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31

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