Orthopedic surgeons, hospitals, and healthcare organizations may use these data to help inform their decisions about patient care, practice direction, and strategic planning. These statistics should give you a sense of the specialty of orthopedic surgery. Further details can be found from the sources listed below. Keep in mind, these data are constantly shifting and changing, but it should give a glimpse into the specialty of orthopedic surgery. Dealing with joint pain can cause major disruptions to your day.
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Among the most frequently performed procedures, arthroscopy of the knee was reported by more surgeons than any other procedures and with greater frequency, according to the AAOS's census. Data was not collected on procedure frequency in the report. Most orthopedic patients are enrolled in managed care plans or pay privately for their procedures.
Orthopedic surgeons report that more than 50 percent of their patients are either enrolled in managed care plans 30 percent or pay privately for their procedures 21 percent, while 32 percent of patients are covered by government payors, primarily Medicare.
Workers' compensation patient payments accounted for approximately 12 percent of the patients, according to Orthopaedic Practice in the U. Orthopedic surgery is the top-paying medical specialty. Orthopedic practice administrator salaries vary widely but are similar to the salaries of administrators of other types of physician practices. Administers earn more as their experience and practice size grows. Based on comparisons of Health Care Group and MGMA data, salaries of orthopedic administrators appear to be in line with what administrators in other specialties earn.
A shortage of orthopedic surgeons performing joint replacement is expected in the next several years. According to two new studies presented at the AAOS Annual Meeting, the number of patients requiring hip or knee replacement surgery is expected to soon outpace the number of surgeons available to perform such procedures.
If the number of orthopedic surgeons trained in total joint replacements continues at its current rate, in , there will not be enough physicians to complete 46 percent of needed hip replacements and 72 percent of needed knee replacements. According to the authors of both studies, this shortage could be halted by improving reimbursement rates for total joint replacement, which has consistently decreased over the last several years.
Medicare professional fees for orthopedic procedures are, on average, more than 40 percent less than the average commercial payments.
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