Campbell Clinic has performed outpatient total joints since 2013. The practice expects to perform a “couple hundred” total hip replacements this year, with volume increasing in subsequent years.
OrthoSouth, too, anticipates a “surge of volume coming” in 2021, but doesn’t believe it’ll be as strong as when total knee replacements were first approved.
The practice performed about 25 percent of its total knee replacements on Medicare patients in 2020, but believes the total hip replacement patients will have more limiting factors.
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