joints will continue."
Shoulders and ankles
should already be
done in outpatient
settings, he says, but
for healthy patients
who need total knees,
outpatient procedures
will become "stan-
dard." However, he
adds, that transition
will be much faster in
some areas than oth-
ers.
Of course, all of this
assumes that some-
one will be willing to
pay for those proce-
dures. If, as Mr.
Horowitz predicts,
reimbursements con-
tinue to decline, prac-
titioners will have to
devise techniques and
technologies that
patients will be will-
ing to pay more for,
he says. "We've seen
it in ophthalmology
via femtosecond
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