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ders. The demand for TJR in this country is going to triple because of
demographics. There also may be a market in medical tourism. In some
countries total joints require a 5- to 7-day hospital stay. A lot of interna-
tional patients are ready to pay to avoid that. We've seen that insurers and
self-insured employers are extremely interested in this. We calculate that
we've already saved our patients and their employers between $2 and $4
million, and we're just getting started.
For patients and insurers, the implications are huge. Outpatient total
knees cost between $13,000 and $15,000, about a third of what they cost in
the hospital. For patients, that means their co-pay is one third of what it
would have been. Surgeons and anesthesia providers don't receive any
extra compensation, but they may attract more cases, since so many
patients would rather recover at home than in a hospital. We've drawn
patients from as far as 2 hours away.
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