Author: Laura Dyrda, Becker’s

Mr. Stack said he sees the move to outpatient surgery as an important driver for the company’s success in the future. The company estimates around 70 percent of surgeries are done in hospitals and 30 percent are done in ASCs; however, over the next 10 years Mr. Stack projects that will flip to 70 percent of surgeries performed in an outpatient or ambulatory setting and 30 percent in the inpatient hospital.

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Here are eight statistics on the rate of total hip and knee replacements in the United States, according to the CDC’s National Hospital Discharge Survey: 2010.

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The more financial responsibility patients share with their insurers, and the more they understand the disparity in prices charged by freestanding ambulatory surgery centers

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We’ve developed a comprehensive approach to outpatient hip and knee replacements, so we know a thing or two about what it takes to launch a successful program.

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CMS has proposed canceling the cardiac and expanded joint replacement bundled payment models.

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A short drive in the Los Angeles area can yield big differences in price for knee or hip replacement surgery.

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