ARTICLE SUMMARY:
The US Medicare agency is continuing to advance policies that open up hip and knee arthroplasties to outpatient and ambulatory surgical center settings. But orthopedic surgeons say CMS is moving too far ahead of the data.
Medicare policymakers are pushing forward on plans that would move more hip and knee replacements from the inpatient side into hospital outpatient and freestanding ambulatory surgical center (ASC) environments.
