Value-based care has been an ongoing hot topic in healthcare, and more and more health systems are paying attention to the shift across the industry.
Becker’s spoke with one surgeon about how value-based care is evolving in orthopedics and how it will improve nonoperative and knee care over the next five years.
Ask Orthopedic Surgeons is a weekly series of questions posed to orthopedic surgeons around the country about clinical, business and policy issues affecting spine care. Becker’s invites all orthopedic surgeon and specialist responses.
Editor’s note: Responses have been lightly edited for clarity and length.
Question: How do you see value-based care evolving for orthopedic practices in the next five years?
Ronald Gardner, MD. Orthopedic Surgeon and Sports Medicine Specialist at Gardner Orthopedics (Fort Myers, Fla.): An array of nonoperative (and therefore essentially risk-free) options are being investigated, tested, and implemented in the care, specifically, of osteoarthritis with great successes in the amelioration of disability and pain associated with it — particularly in the knee.
