Brian Busconi, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon and chief of the division of Sports Medicine at Worcester-based UMass Memorial Medical Center. He is also the medical director at The Surgery Center in Shrewsbury (Mass) where he also performs surgery. After…
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The UPMC Health Plan recognized Kittanning, Pa.-based Armstrong Center for Medicine and Health Hospital as a hip and knee joint replacement center of excellence, according to the Kittanning Paper.
Total hip arthroplasty can be safely performed in both ASC and hospital outpatient settings, according to a study published in The Journal of Arthroplasty.
Here are five recent updates about outpatient total joint replacement:
Just 15 percent of the 900,000 hip and knee joint replacements performed in the U.S. in 2016 were done in an outpatient setting, but Sg2 researchers predict that percentage will rise dramatically — and soon.
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Joint replacement outpatients are as happy, if not happier than, their inpatient counterparts, according to a survey presented at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, March 12-16 in Las Vegas.
James Van Horne, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon focused exclusively on total joint replacements. He performs around 500 to 600 cases per year and one-third of his patients are commercial insurance beneficiaries; the remaining are Medicare or Medicaid beneficiaries.
CMS' proposal to add total knee arthroplasty to the ASC covered procedures list in 2020 is "long overdue," according to Michael Gillman, MD, CMO and founder of Las Vegas-based BullsEye Ortho.
CVS plans to launch a pilot program this summer to help Aetna knee replacement surgery patients with care before and after their procedures, an Aetna spokesperson confirmed to Becker's ASC Review.
Becker's ASC Review reported on the opening or expansion of three ASCs offering orthopedics services in July: