Total Joint Replacement

Three decades of research have consistently demonstrated that patients who have their surgery performed at a facility and by a surgeon with more experience have better outcomes, including lower complication rates. 

Based on the research by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Michigan Medicine, and Johns Hopkins Medicine, as well as guidance from Leapfrog’s national expert panel, Leapfrog has identified two high-risk procedures performed in surgery centers for which there is a strong volume-outcome relationship.

The procedures with their corresponding minimum facility volumes and minimum annual surgeon volumes for privileging are shown in the table below.