Get the latest insights on the trends impacting musculoskeletal care. Download these ready-to-use slides to stay informed and guide conversations about this evolving market.

Get our predictions on key drivers, volume outlooks, and strategic imperatives that are driving (or slowing) growth in orthopedics service lines.

Four key drivers reshaping the delivery of musculoskeletal care

Discover the top three musculoskeletal care priorities of each stakeholder, including providers, payers, life sciences companies, digital health companies and consumers.

Use our new template to develop a orthopedics-specific health plan that you can adapt to reflect your institution's changing priorities. The template provides direction on four steps of the planning process: performance analysis, market assessment, plan design, and plan evaluation.

How does an intermediate program differ from a progressive one? To help you understand what differentiates levels of program maturity, we’ve created service line-specific benchmarks based on research interviews and market expertise.

This primer offers an overview of six alignment models and how they balance different priorities from physician autonomy to cost and quality improvement, provides guidance on implementation, and showcases examples of how to select the most meaningful metrics and an example of a comprehensive contract.

Understand the strategies and various spine program models you should be considering.

How and when should you transition joint replacements to ambulatory surgery centers? Use our decision guide to find out.

Get a clear view into the future of ambulatory surgery center (ASC) services to help you prioritize investments and align goals.

Learn how two orthopedics programs shifted joint replacements to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) to retain volume and compete for new patients.

We used claims data to investigate how procedures shift out of the inpatient setting and enable better predictions of site-of-care shifts.

Discover how procedures and key services are shifting out of the hospital with our interactive maps.

Discover the latest trends in site-of-care shifts for outpatient services with our interactive graphs. See how 15 key procedures and over 150 subservice lines are shifting between care sites so you can incorporate these findings into your site-of-care shift planning.

Penn centralized its fragmented referral process by creating a single channel for intaking and triaging internal physicians’ referrals: the multidisciplinary spine access team. The team worked with Penn’s physicians and advanced practice providers to design its protocols, securing their buy-in for the new system.

Overcoming inefficiencies along the surgical pathway requires collaboration across disciplines. Access our best research to assess your operating room (OR) strategy and improve efficiency.

Build operational readiness to meet the new market reality, maximize reimbursement and cut costs to maintain margins, and partner with physicians to retain volumes within your health system with our six tactics.

This research briefing offers six examples of orthopaedic patient navigation programmes from around the world and explores the benefits and limitations of three types of patient navigators.

Hospital and health system leaders worry that Wegovy and similar weight management medications will erode their bariatric surgery volumes and revenue. However, when health systems and providers provide comprehensive obesity care, they can drive growth for surgical services by improving outcomes, increasing volume, and decreasing costs.

Patient steerage tactics are gaining popularity among employers due to promises of lower costs and improved quality of care. Here are 5 strategies spine providers can learn from Walmart’s spine COEs to appeal to employers and win guaranteed volume streams.

A checklist outlining the three prerequisites for engaging in spine steerage agreements with large employers.

This report details two tactics to disrupt your competitor referrals through sports medicine program differentiation.

Health systems are increasingly focusing on ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) as a means to increase OR capacity, gain market share, and offer a lower-cost site of service. Read this to learn expert tactics for appealing to surgery center stakeholders.

Explore how individuals select orthopedic providers and what factors drive their decisions to help you build your consumer strategy.