What Surgeons Don’t Know About Orthopedic Implant Prices
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A survey published in Health Affairs finds many orthopedic surgeons don’t know the prices of the implants they employ. The researchers and others point to the price ignorance as an important challenge to containing overall health care costs, but industry says the issue is being overhyped.
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