A new study from a Mass General/Harvard Medical School research team calculated the effects of body mass (measured using the BMI scale) on joint arthroplasty surgery facility costs and resource utilization. The full study, “Weighing the Impact: The Influence of Body Mass Index on Facility Costs in Total Joint Arthroplasty,” appears in the December 2024 edition of the Journal of Arthroplasty.
“This study was driven by the need to better understand the economic impact of patient-specific factors, such as BMI [body mass index], on total joint arthroplasty (TJA) costs,” co-author Christopher M. Melnic, M.D. of Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, explained to OTW.
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