Research published in The Journal of Arthroplasty examined the rate of opioid consumption for total hip and knee arthroplasty patients.

Four Pewaukee-based Orthopaedic Associates of Wisconsin surgeons have performed 163 shoulder replacements using ExactechGPS since their facility implemented the navigation system in 2017, the Waukesha Freeman reports.

Medicare's mandatory bundled payments for joint replacement created modest savings per hip or knee replacement episode without increasing complications, according to research published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Research published in the Journal of Arthroplasty examined how sleep apnea affects total joint arthroplasty complications.

Although knee replacements are largely considered successful, some recipients said their pain returned after surgery, according to a Kaiser Health News report.

Kamran S. Hamid, MD, shared three lessons he learned through building a value-based orthopedic clinic in the latest issue of the Rush Orthopedics Journal.

Physicians aren't staying engaged with patients after outpatient surgery despite the growing popularity of outpatient orthopedic procedures, according to new research published in the Rush Orthopedics Journal.

Keith Berend, MD, is a hip and knee surgeon and founding physician of Joint Implant Surgeons in New Albany, Ohio.

Joshua Siegel, MD, is the sports medicine director and a founding member of Access Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics in Exeter, N.H.

Fresno, Calif.-based Saint Agnes Care Brain & Spine Institute physicians perform 30 to 50 outpatient artificial disc replacement procedures in a year, according to The Business Journal.

Briefly overlapping surgeries can be performed in ASCs without increasing complications, according to an infographic created by the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

OrthoAtlanta will serve as the 2018 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl's official orthopedic and sports medicine provider Dec. 29.

Zeev Kain, MD, outlined three considerations for surgeons starting outpatient joint replacement programs in a post.

William Workman, MD, surgically repaired the left shoulder of Oakland Athletic's third baseman Matt Chapman at Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Bass Surgical Center, MLB.com reports.

There are now more than 250 ASCs in the U.S. where surgeons perform total joint replacements. Here are those centers, categorized by state.

Overland Park (Kan.) Surgical Suites acquired robotic technology for knee replacement procedures.

Jared Roberts, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Albany, N.Y.- based The Bone & Joint Center. Recently, he performed one of the area's first outpatient hip surgeries at the Capital Region Ambulatory Surgery Center in Albany.

Overland Park (Kan) Surgical Suites offers robotic-assisted total and partial knee replacements with the NAVIO Surgical System.

Daniel Hoeffel, MD, told the Johnson & Johnson Institute three key questions to ask prior to starting an outpatient total joint program.

Here are Becker's ASC Review's top 10 total joint-related articles from 2018: