University of Tsukuba Reports Findings in Hip Fracture (Medical expenditures for fragility hip fracture in Japan: a study using the nationwide health insurance claims database): Hip Fracture

2022 APR 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on Hip Fracture is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating in Ibaraki, Japan, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Using the nationwide health insurance claims database in Japan, we estimated total annual medical expenditures for fragility hip fracture across the population at 329.2 billion yen (2.99 billion US dollars). Long-term care expenditures were not included.”

Financial support for this research came from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Tsukuba, “Fragility hip fracture imposes a considerable health economic burden on society in Japan. Fragility hip fracture imposes a substantial health economic burden on society globally. We aimed to estimate medical expenditures for fragility hip fracture using the nationwide health insurance claims database in Japan. We included adults aged 60 and over without prior hip fracture who were admitted for fragility hip fracture (i.e., femoral neck or extracapsular) between October 2014 and October 2015 (13 months). Fragility hip fracture was identified through newly assigned disease codes for fracture and procedure codes associated with the fracture. As a proxy for medical expenditures per patient, incremental payments were calculated (i.e., the difference between the total payments 6 months before and after fragility hip fracture). The total payments included health insurance reimbursements and copayments for inpatient and outpatient services. Long-term care expenditures were not included in this study. We identified 142,361 individuals (28,868 male and 113,493 female) with fragility hip fracture. Mean medical expenditures for fragility hip fracture per patient were 2,550,000 yen (¥) (23,180 US dollars [$]; ¥110 = $1) in male and ¥2,494,000 ($22,670) in female patients, respectively. Total annual medical expenditures for fragility hip fracture across the population were 329.2 billion yen (2.99 billion US dollars): 67.96 billion yen (620 million US dollars) in male and 261.24 billion yen (2.37 billion US dollars) in female patients, respectively. This is the first study to estimate medical expenditures for hip fracture using the nationwide health insurance claims database, which represents almost all health insurance claims in Japan.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Fragility hip fracture inflicts a considerable health economic burden on society in Japan.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Medical expenditures for fragility hip fracture in Japan: a study using the nationwide health insurance claims database. Archives of Osteoporosis, 2022;17(1):61. Archives of Osteoporosis can be contacted at: Springer London Ltd, 236 Grays Inn Rd, 6TH Floor, London WC1X 8HL, England. (Springer - www.springer.com; Archives of Osteoporosis - http://www.springerlink.com/content/1862-3522/)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Takahiro Mori, Health Services Research and Development Center, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tenno-dai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan. Additional authors for this research include Jun Komiyama, Tomoko Fujii, Masaru Sanuki, Keitaro Kume, Genta Kato, Yukiko Mori, Hiroaki Ueshima, Hiroki Matsui, Nanako Tamiya and Takehiro Sugiyama.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11657-022-01096-8. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

The publisher of the journal Archives of Osteoporosis can be contacted at: Springer London Ltd, 236 Grays Inn Rd, 6TH Floor, London WC1X 8HL, England.

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