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Author: Alan Condon

Musculoskeletal management services organizations are becoming more prominent among physician-owned practices that are looking for partners to take on some of their business and administrative responsibilities so they can focus more on patient care.

Realty Trust Group, a real estate advisory and services firm, partnered with the University of Tennessee Medical Center, OrthoTennessee and UT Research Park at Cherokee Farm to develop an orthopedic institute in Knoxville.

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The average wait time to see an orthopedic surgeon is 16.9 days, up from 11.4 days in 2017, a 48% increase, according to Merritt Hawkins' 2022 "Survey of Physician Appointment Wait Times and Medicare and Medicaid Acceptance Rates."

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