Orthopedics / TJR

ASCs across the country have incorporated total joint replacements. Here are nine from Arizona that currently include outpatient total joints.

ASCs across the country have incorporated total joint replacements. Here are 29 from California that currently include outpatient total joints.

ASCs across the country have incorporated total joint replacements. Here are 14 from Colorado that currently include outpatient total joints.

ASCs across the country have incorporated total joint replacements. Here are ASCs from Florida that currently include outpatient total joints.

ASCs across the country have incorporated total joint replacements. Here are ASCs from Georgia that currently include outpatient total joints.

Complication rates for outpatient total hip and knee arthroplasties are similar to inpatient rates for the same procedures, according to research published in Arthroplasty Today.

Outpatient, short-stay total hip arthroplasty is safe for select Medicare-aged patients, according to research published in the Journal of Arthroplasty.

Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan's Michigan Arthroplasty Registry Collaborative Quality Initiative recently surpassed 250,000 cases.

Michael Chmell, MD, is the medical director of Rockford-based Ortho Illinois Surgery Center. Here, he shares the top opportunities for orthopedic growth in ASCs:

Patient-level costs for primary elective inpatient total shoulder arthroplasty were higher than those for outpatient procedures, according to research published in the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery.