Marginal contribution of UKS- versus TKA in varus arthritis of the knee

摘要

Background In recent years, decisions regarding the treatment of individual patients have increasingly been affected by economic considerations. The G-DRG system reimburses sledge endoprosthetic implantations at a much lower rate than surface replacements and at significantly different cost weights (CW). Therefore, when only G-DRG payments are considered, TKA produces higher gains. Taking only these revenues alone into consideration, however, does not provide the basis of an economically sound decision-making process. The target of this research was to present a comparison between variable costs of the two procedures.