Medicare’s price lookup tool compares cost breakdowns and patient costs for several procedures done at ASCs and hospital outpatient departments, including total hip and total knee replacements.
Tallahassee (Fla.) Orthopedic Clinic now provides robotic arm-assisted total and partial knee replacements using Stryker’s Mako SmartRobotics application, according to a Jan. 31 Tallahassee Democrat article.
Surgical Care Affiliates’ Pocono Ambulatory Surgery Center recently performed a total hip arthroplasty, the first to be done by a Surgical Care Affiliates ASC in Pennsylvania.
Atlas Healthcare Partners’ Banner Surgery Center-Thunderbird in Glendale, Ariz., recently performed its first total knee replacement and first partial shoulder replacement on the same day, Atlas said Jan. 26.