Knee Replacements on the Rise

According to a new study in JAMA, knee replacement surgery could reach 3.5 million a year by 2030 in the United States.  Wonder why health costs are rising?  We have new expensive technology that improves quality of life but may also break the Medicare bank!

The study showed that the number of knee surgeries performed more than doubled from 1991 to 2010.  Fortunately, length of stay in the