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Using national Medicare data, we aimed to compare per-case Medicare payments between podiatrists and orthopaedic surgeons for ankle fracture fixation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This retrospective cohort study included patients in an outpatient setting undergoing either unimalleolar, bimalleolar, or trimalleolar ankle fracture repair from the national Medicare Limited Data Set (2013-2019). Type of surgeon (podiatrist or orthopaedic surgeon) was determined using publicly available information. The primary outcome was total Medicare payments specific to the procedure, as a surrogate for cost. A subset analysis was also done to directly compare costs of orthopaedic surgeons to podiatric surgeons while excluding other fees (eg, hospital facility fees and surgery-related imaging payments). Additionally, patient demographics and hospital characteristics were compared to determine if any factors associated with costs may influence group differences. Univariable tests assessed significance of group differences.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Overall, 16\u2009927 unimalleolar, 17\u2009244 bimalleolar, and 11\u2009717 trimalleolar fracture repairs were included; 86.7% and 13.3%, 92.4% and 7.6%, and 92.2% and 7.8% were performed by an orthopaedic surgeon or podiatrist, respectively. Median age (70-71\u2009years) and median Charlson-Deyo Comorbidity Index (0) did not significantly differ between patients treated by either surgeon type. Median procedure-specific Medicare payments for all 3 categories of ankle fracture repairs (uni-, bi-, trimalleolar) were significantly lower for orthopaedic surgeons compared to podiatrists: $4156 vs $4300, $4205 vs $4379, and $4396 vs $4525, respectively (all P\u2009&lt;\u2009.001).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our investigation using a national Medicare data set (2013-2019) found that the 3 types of ankle fractures (unimalleolar, bimalleolar, and trimalleolar) performed by orthopaedic surgeons in an outpatient setting were less expensive and that cost differences do not appear to be driven by patient characteristics. These results and further research into the causes of the cost differences may help improve the cost-effectiveness of ankle fracture surgery.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/10711007241268225","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,4]],"date-time":"2024-09-04T10:17:48Z","timestamp":1725445068000},"page":"1279-1291","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["A Retrospective Cohort Analysis Comparing the Costs of Ankle Fracture Fixation in Orthopaedics and Podiatry in a U.S. Medicare Limited Data Set"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"45","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5948-6581","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"James","family":"Meyers","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-7802-7628","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Peter","family":"Campbell","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alexander","family":"Lieber","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Joshua","family":"Luginbuhl","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nicole","family":"Zubizarreta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9621-8359","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eric","family":"Gokcen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jashvant","family":"Poeran","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8541-5533","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Meghan","family":"Kelly","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-10711007241268225","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/00273171.2011.568786"},{"key":"bibr2-10711007241268225","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.14245\/ns.1836170.085"},{"key":"bibr3-10711007241268225","volume-title":"SAS Global Forum","author":"Berglund PA.","year":"2010"},{"key":"bibr4-10711007241268225","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1001\/jama.2012.362"},{"key":"bibr5-10711007241268225","unstructured":"Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds. 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