Medicare Insurance Is Associated with Reduced Hip Arthroscopy Patient-Reported Outcome Measures.
Medicare patients reported much worse hip arthroscopy sports function than commercially insured patients.
Medicare Insurance Is Associated with Reduced Hip Arthroscopy Patient-Reported Outcome Measures.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the difference in patient-reported outcome measures (patient-reported outcome measures) after hip arthroscopy (hip arthroscopy) among patients with commercial insurance as compared with those with government-provided insurance, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE or Veterans Affairs (Veterans Affairs).
Were excluded if they did not have at least 1-year postoperative patient-reported outcome measures, were self-pay, had Workers' Compensation insurance, were uninsured, or had a hip arthroplasty after their arthroscopy.
Medicare patients were significantly older than those with commercial insurance ( P =0.002).
Patients with Medicaid (n=6) had significantly lower patient-reported outcome measures than those with commercial insurance (n=53).
No difference in patient-reported outcome measures were noted between those with commercial insurance and those with Medicaid or Veterans Affairs/TRICARE coverage.
This study demonstrated that those with Medicare insurance had significantly lower patient-reported outcome measures than those with commercial insurance.
It is unclear, however, to what extent this finding reflects underlying demographic differences such as age. Further research is needed to clarify this relationship.