Publications by authors named "Thomas C Hydrick"
Background: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is a major payer for abdominal transplant services. Reimbursement reductions could have a major impact on the transplant surgical workforce and hospitals. Yet government reimbursement trends in abdominal transplantation have not been fully characterized.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Comprehensive trends in Medicare reimbursement, increasingly relevant to current and future surgical oncology practice, have not been well studied.
Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze Medicare reimbursement for index surgical oncology procedures between 2007 and 2021.
Methods: Using the Physician Fee Schedule Look-Up Tool from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, reimbursement data from 2007 to 2021 were obtained for 23 index surgical oncology procedures.
Study Design: Retrospective review.
Objectives: (1) Identify the 90-day rate of readmission following revision lumbar fusion, (2) identify independent risk factors associated with increased rates of readmission within 90 days, (3) and identify the hospital costs associated with revision lumbar fusion and subsequent readmission within 90 days.
Methods: Utilizing 2014 data from the Nationwide Readmissions Database, patients undergoing elective revision lumbar fusion were identified.
Background: Incisional negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is used in many surgical specialties to prevent postoperative dehiscence and surgical site infections (SSIs). However, little is known about the role of incisional NPWT in spine fusion surgery. Therefore, we sought to report a single surgeon's experience using incisional NPWT and describe its effects on dehiscence and SSIs after instrumented spine surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Lumbar spine injuries (LSIs) are common in both men's and women's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball players and can frequently lead to reinjuries and persistent pain.
Purpose: To describe the epidemiology of an LSI in collegiate men's and women's basketball during the 2009-2010 through 2013-2014 academic years.
Study Design: Descriptive epidemiology study.
Background: National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football players are at a high risk of injuries. Elbow injuries are uncommon, but there are insufficient data specifically on elbow injuries sustained in NCAA football players.
Purpose: To define the epidemiology of elbow injuries in NCAA football players during the 2009-2010 to 2013-2014 seasons using data from the NCAA Injury Surveillance Program (NCAA-ISP).
Background: Little research has focused on the rates and patterns of elbow injuries in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) student-athletes.
Purpose: To describe the epidemiological patterns of elbow injuries in NCAA athletes during 5 seasons over the academic years 2009 through 2014 using the NCAA Injury Surveillance Program (NCAA-ISP) database.
Study Design: Descriptive epidemiology study.
Background: Low back injuries are common in collegiate football players and can frequently lead to persistent pain, reinjuries, and time lost from participation.
Purpose: To describe the epidemiology of back injuries in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football players during the 2009/2010 through 2013/2014 academic years utilizing the NCAA Injury Surveillance Program (ISP) database.
Study Design: Descriptive epidemiology study.
Study Design: Descriptive epidemiology study.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe the epidemiology of cervical spine injuries in collegiate football players.
Summary Of Background Data: The incidence and etiology of cervical spine injuries in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football players has not been well defined in recent years.