Scott Hannum, MD, is a partner at Durham, N.C.-based EmergeOrtho, and medical director and co-owner of Brunswick Surgery Center in Leland, N.C.
Dr. Hannum is also a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who specializes in hip and knee replacements.
He is certified in both Mako robotic-arm-assisted surgery and the ROSA knee system for robotic-assisted total knee replacements.
He has experience working in private practice, ASC ownership, consulting, and in the design of instruments and implants for surgery.
In addition to co-owning Brunswick Surgery Center, he performs outpatient procedures at the facility. He is also affiliated and performs inpatient and outpatient surgery at Novant Health Orthopedic Hospital.
In 2024, Dr. Hannum sat down with Becker’s to discuss key trends in the ASC and orthopedic spaces, the shift to outpatient surgery, advancements in robotics and AI, and the evolving role of orthopedic supergroups in shaping the future of patient care.
“We as clinicians, first and foremost, want to take great care of our patients. We don’t want to put them in harm’s way, and we want them to have excellent outcomes. We always thought that patients could recover quicker [in the outpatient setting], but the pandemic really forced us to accelerate that learning curve. Once we proved that we could do it safely, and that patient satisfaction was actually higher and complications rates were actually lower, the sky became the limit,” he said. “Spine surgery is a big area. There’s a lot of procedures that our spine physicians feel they can safely do in the ASC space, but CMS and other payers have not approved a lot of those codes to be done at the ASC. That’s going to change in the next few years. I truly believe we’re going to be doing 75% of orthopedic care in an outpatient center.”
Dr. Hannum is speaking at Becker’s 22nd Annual Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC + The Future of Spine Conference, set for June 18-21 at the Swissotel Chicago.
