Table 5.
Outcome measures for patients undergoing total hip replacement according to primary payer group.
| Characteristic | Medicare (%) | Medicaid (%) | Private Insurance (%) |
Other (%) | Uninsured (%) | Overall (%) | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-hospital mortality | |||||||
| No | 164,495 (99.7) | 10,150 (99.8) | 110,093 (99.9) | 8,015 (99.9) | 2,301 (100.0) | 295,054 (99.8) | <.0001 |
| Yes | 415 (0.3) | 17 (0.2) | 51 (0.0) | <11 | <11 | ||
| Missing | 17 (0.0) | <11 | <11 | <11 | |||
| Any complication | 12,006 (7.3) | 624 (6.1) | 4,488 (4.1) | 410 (5.1) | 144 (6.3) | 17,672 (6.0) | <.0001 |
| Cardiovascular complications grouped variable | 3,529 (2.1) | 114 (1.1) | 895 (0.8) | 73 (0.9) | 30 (1.3) | 4,641 (1.6) | <.0001 |
| Pulmonary complications grouped variable | 4,613 (2.8) | 281 (2.8) | 2,023 (1.8) | 206 (2.6) | 57 (2.5) | 7,180 (2.4) | <.0001 |
| Infectious complications grouped variable | 3,735 (2.3) | 225 (2.2) | 1,113 (1.0) | 108 (1.3) | 48 (2.1) | 5,229 (1.8) | <.0001 |
| Intraoperative complication grouped variable | 1,078 (0.7) | 71 (0.7) | 475 (0.4) | 36 (0.4) | 17 (0.7) | 1,677 (0.6) | <.0001 |
| Gastrointestinal complication | 988 (0.6) | 40 (0.4) | 420 (0.4) | 32 (0.4) | <11 | <.0001 | |
| 90-Day Readmission** | 18,444 (11.9) | 1,320 (14.5) | 7,461 (7.3) | 676 (9.3) | 174 (9.2) | 28,075 (10.2) | |
| Length of stay: Median (Q1; Q3) | 3 (3; 4) | 4 (3; 5) | 3 (3; 4) | 3 (3; 4) | 3 (3; 4) | 3 (3; 4) | <.0001 |
| Total charges in 2016 dollars: Median (Q1; Q3) | 64,495 (48,110; 87,804) | 66,561 (45,716; 92,108) | 63,054 (47,780; 85,612) | 68,924 (49,631; 93,172) | 57,897 (39,947; 78,428) | 64,080 (47,895; 87,280) |
Percents may not sum to 100 due to rounding and missing values.