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ORTHOPEDICS
Top 20 hospitals
for orthopedics,
by U.S. News
By Laura Dyrda
U
.S. News & World Report published
its Best Hospitals for Orthopedics
2019-20 rankings, with Hospital
for Special Surgery ranking No. 1 for the
10th consecutive year.
e publication gathered information
from 1,624 hospitals about their orthope-
dics programs, focused on hospitals that
treated at least 313 Medicare inpatients in
orthopedics from 2015 to 2017. Here are
the top 20 hospitals:
1. Hospital for Special Surgery (New York
City)
2. Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.)
3. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los
Angeles)
4. UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco)
5. NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital
(New York City)
6. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
7. Rush University Medical Center (Chi-
cago)
8. Santa Monica (Calif.) – UCLA Medical
Center and Orthopedic Hospital
9. Stanford (Calif.) Health Care – Stanford
Hospital
10. Rothman Institute at omas Jefferson
University Hospitals (Philadelphia)
11. North Shore University Hospital
(Manhasset, N.Y.)
12. Scripps La Jolla (Calif.) Hospitals
13. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital – Co-
lumbia and Cornell (New York City)
14. Houston Methodist Hospital
15. Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak (Mich.)
16. Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital
17. Cleveland Clinic
18. Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City)
19. New England Baptist Hospital (Boston)
19. University of Wisconsin Hospitals
(Madison)
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Orthopedist salary, revenue generated &
demand: 3 notes from Merritt Hawkins
By Rachel Popa
O
rthopedists have one of the
highest starting salaries for
physicians, and generate over
$3 million for hospitals, according
to surveys conducted by physician
search firm Merritt Hawkins.
Three details:
1. The number of searches for ortho-
pedic surgeons has varied greatly
since 2014, when there were 58
searches, which increased to 106 the
following year, according to the 2019
Merritt Hawkins physician recruitment
survey. The number of searches has
fallen since 2015, with 81 in 2016 and
61 in 2017.
2. Orthopedic surgeons had the
second highest starting salary of all
physicians tracked in the recruiting
survey at $536,000.
3. Orthopedic surgeons generate an
average of $3,286,764 in revenue for
hospitals, up from $2,746,605 report-
ed in 2016, according to the Merritt
Hawkins 2019 inpatient/outpatient
revenue survey.
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CMS total joint proposal 'better late than
never,' CMO says
By Angie Stewart
C
MS' proposed rule to add total knee arthroplasty to the ASC covered
procedures list in 2020 is "long overdue," according to Michael Gillman,
MD, CMO and founder of Las Vegas-based BullsEye Ortho.
Dr. Gillman has been performing total knee replacements in surgery centers since
2011, when he performed the first known outpatient total knee replacement in Califor-
nia's Orange County, according to the American College of Perioperative Medicine.
CMS' recent proposed rule is "better late" than never, Dr. Gillman said.
"Patients win with better satisfaction scores and experiences, lower risk of infec-
tion and last but not least, lower out-of-pocket costs," he said in a LinkedIn post.
"Cost savings for the system are tremendous when you consider that 50 to 70 per-
cent of patients can safely have total knee replacements done out of the hospital."
BullsEye Ortho's ASC recorded 19,000 procedures in 2018, with only eight
infections, according to Dr. Gillman.
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Orthopedic ASC embarks on $4M
expansion, renovation
By Angie Stewart
R
aleigh, N.C.-based Triangle Or-
thopaedics Surgery Center has
an expansion in the pipeline,
according to documents filed by the
North Carolina Department of Health
and Human Services.
Three details:
1. TOSC gained permission on May 1
to move forward with a 5,320-square-
foot expansion and 1,930-square-foot
renovation.
2. TOSC, which is led by administrator
Christine Washick, RN, was exempted
from a certificate of need to add two
unlicensed procedure rooms.
3. The project will cost an estimated
$4 million.
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