Orthopedics / TJR

Demand for total hip replacements is growing among both younger and older patients.

The Mesquite, Texas-based NTTC Surgery Center is offering robotic total knee replacement.

Orthopedic recruiting searches have fluctuated for the past five years, according to the Merritt Hawkins 2019 review of physician and advanced practitioner recruiting incentives.

ASCs save total joint replacement patients 40 percent over their hospital counterparts, according to an American Council on Science and Health report.

SurgCenter Development physicians have performed about 2,700 joint replacement procedures since April.

Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute's John Uribe, MD, spoke to Becker's ASC Review about competing motives, documentation burden and career satisfaction.

The average yearly salary for a neurosurgeon working in the U.S. is $308,571, according to jobseeker website ZipRecruiter.

Here are three orthopedic ASCs that were opened or announced this month:

Physicians at Alexandria, Minn.-based Heartland Orthopedic Specialists are now performing joint replacements using the Mako robotic arm.

Surgeons from the Indianapolis-based Midwest Center for Joint Replacement biked across the country to raise money for Operation Walk Midwest, a nonprofit providing free joint replacement surgery for patients in need, according to local news affiliate FOX 59.