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Orthopedics

As acute care hospitals face growing competition, protecting their orthopedic surgery departments becomes increasingly valuable. Not-for-profit acute care hospitals depend on that revenue to subsidize moneylosing services and attract new patients. Reimbursements from public and private insurers for orthopedic surgery…

Hospital hiring of physician specialists ebbs and flows, driven by reimbursement climates. According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, hospital employment of orthopedic surgeons nearly doubled from 2.2 percent of surgeons in 1990 to as high as 4.3 percent…

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