Article Explores Trend Toward Outpatient Settings for Total Joint Replacement
Healthcare’s evolution toward value-based care and risk-sharing payment models is prompting many hospitals to take a new look at moving total joint replacement (TJR) surgery to outpatient settings, including ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), as a transformational strategy with potential to improve both bottom-lines and quality of care. While the shift to performing TJR in outpatient…