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A mobile nurse practitioner carries an Old Mission Wound Care medical bag to an appointment.
Wound-care-economics

What Is the True Cost of a Lower Extremity Amputation? (It's Not What Your DRG Report Shows)

A lower extremity amputation isn’t a $20,000 DRG event. It’s typically a $125,000+ first-year cost cascade once you account for post-acute care, readmissions, prosthetics, and permanent risk elevation. DRG reporting stops at discharge, masking months of escalating pre-operative spend and the long actuarial tail that follows limb loss. Early, accountable wound stabilization ($10,000–$25,000) is almost always cheaper than absorbing a preventable six-figure failure.

DCM
Dr. Christopher Mason
February 26, 2026
An Old Mission Wound Care nurse practitioner greets a wound care patient in his home.
Wound-care-economics

Fee-For-Service vs. Value-Based Wound Care: Which Model Actually Reduces Your Risk?

Fee-for-service wound care rewards time and volume, which quietly shifts financial and clinical risk onto home health agencies, hospitals, and payers as wounds stall and escalate into costly failures. Value-based wound care flips the incentives—forcing providers to own trajectory, downside risk, and outcomes so resolution, not repetition, becomes the economic goal.

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Dr. Christopher Mason
February 23, 2026
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