About a decade ago, Michael P. Ast, MD, performed a hip replacement surgery on a 40-year-old male, a procedure he’d done many times before....

It’s fitting that wide-awake hand surgery, a surgical approach so simple it’s considered a patient experience as ordinary as a dental appointment, has gained steam...

From major reimbursement changes to existential threats to procedures that are moving to outpatient facilities (robotics, complex spine and GYN cases), here’s what...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reversed course and has approved total shoulder replacements and several other procedures to be reimbursed when...

When upgrading or renovating your surgery center, design of your perioperative space is obviously a top priority. AORN’s new Guideline for Design and Maintenance of the...

As orthopedic ASCs continue to be built and developed due to overwhelming demand for their services and the value and convenience they provide, the Medicare...

It’s an exciting time to be in the orthopedics industry. When you combine innovations in sensor-based wearable technologies, smart implants and more accessible...

Charles Hannon, MD, MBA, an orthopedic surgeon with Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., is a leading researcher on pain management before, during and after hip...

Considering all the effort you put into the major, headache-inducing aspects of an ASC design and build — the endless delays, the never-ending regulatory hurdles...

Given Medicare’s addition of several orthopedic procedures to its fee schedule, an increasingly graying population and a post-COVID effect that has predisposed...

Sure, a successful surgery in the patient’s eyes means waking up and knowing they will soon have their mobility and, essentially, their quality of life back....

There was a time when all surgical power tools had to be handwashed (or, in sterile processing parlance, manually cleaned) because the devices weren’t...

We perform roughly 40 procedures a day at our busy orthopedic surgery center, and we expect every patient to leave the operating room without a pressure injury....

In the outpatient joint replacement world, hips and knees are still king....

Before Christopher Miller, MD, an orthopedic foot and ankle surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and New England Baptist Hospital in Boston...

Orthopedic patients are often surprised that their bones are repaired with screws, drill bits, saws and other tools that look very much like what they have...

Custom implants have emerged as a valuable tool in both knee and hip revision surgery, offering potential benefits to both patients and surgeons....

Whether you’re simply looking to add smaller cases like hand surgeries or aiming for a higher stakes total joints program, the orthopedics industry...

Success in the rapidly growing endoscopic spine surgery (ESS) space often comes down to striking a delicate balance between two sometimes disparate factors...

The day before I spoke with Peter Kim, MD, an orthopedic hand surgery specialist in the Boston area, he performed a unilateral endoscopic carpal tunnel release on a friend and colleague...