Value-Based Care is Focus of Orthopedic Conference

Whether patients can have a total hip or knee replacement and go home the same day will be a question addressed during a two-day conference hosted by the American College of Perioperative Medicine. The conference, whose focus is value-based care, will take place on Jan. 21-22 in Newport Beach, California. Conference topics will include bundled payments, telemedicine, implant negotiation, patient selection, postoperative fever and hospital-acquired infections. New developments in anesthesia that may make outpatient joint-replacement and certain spine surgeries feasible will be discussed, as w...