Wooster (Ohio) Ambulatory Surgery Center installed Stryker's Mako SmartRobotics System to offer robotically-assisted total and partial knee replacements, The Daily Record reported Dec. 13.

Hip and knee reconstruction specialist Joshua Rozell, MD, helped pioneer same-day joint replacement surgeries at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn. For his team, careful patient selection and surgical planning have been key to quality outcomes.

Harpreet Bawa, MD, of Van Nuys-based Southern California Orthopedic Institute is expected to perform the San Fernando Valley region's first outpatient hip replacement using Stryker's Mako robot, according to a Dec. 8 press release.

Surgery Center of Pinehurst (N.C.) logged its first robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty case on Dec. 3, according to Paul Kostansek, program development manager at Zimmer Biomet Robotics.

Executives from New York hospitals are fighting to keep profitable orthopedic procedures despite pressure from CMS and private payers to transition lower-acuity procedures to the ASC setting, Buffalo Business First reported Dec. 13.

Bradenton, Fla.-based Coastal Orthopedics is building a medical center and headquarters in Manatee County, Fla., the practice announced Dec. 2.

Bundled payments in orthopedics are becoming more sophisticated as surgeons collect data and develop standards based on analytics insights.

Flagstaff (Ariz.) Bone & Joint surgeons are seeing an increase in patient volume due to injuries as people seek more outdoor activity amid the pandemic, according to a report in the Arizona Daily Sun.

WestHealth Surgery Center in Plymouth, Minn., now uses Stryker's Mako robot in knee and hip replacements, according to CCX Media.

 A study published Nov. 13 in the Journal of Arthroplasty found most total joint replacement researchers are men.

  Beaverton-based Oregon Surgical Institute reached a milestone of performing 1,000 outpatient total joint replacements, according to a Nov. 12 press release from Regent Surgical Health.

November officially marks the 10th year in operation for Irvine, Calif.-based Hoag Orthopedic Institute.

Cardiology procedures are shifting to the ASC setting at a slower rate than orthopedic procedures are, and professional services firm ZS surveyed ASC surgeons and administrators to explore why.

Since Oct. 1, Becker's ASC Review has reported on four ASCs using new technology:

Six orthopedics-focused ASCs opened or announced openings in the last month:

The Bone and Joint Surgery Center of Novi (Mich.) scored a spot on the 2020 ranking of Michigan's top workplaces.

  A study by Hospital for Special Surgery researchers looked at racial disparities in double knee replacements between Black and white patients, according to a Nov. 9 press release.

The Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee is leveraging robotics and innovative anesthesia techniques to improve its outpatient total joint replacement program, according to the Williamson Source.

Flagstaff (Ariz.) Bone & Joint added the OMNIBotics robotic surgery platform to perform robotically-assisted knee replacement surgeries at its surgery center, Flagstaff Business News reported Nov. 3.

Total knee arthroplasty patients are getting younger, which coincides with rising rates of revision procedures, according to a study published in the Journal of Arthroplasty.