Lights, Camera, Action: How to Make Arthroscopy a Star in Value‐Based Health Care

In an era of increasingly greater analysis of health care expenditure, orthopaedic surgery is often pointed to as a major driver in escalating health care costs. This assertion is despite evidence that orthopaedics as a specialty contributes less toward creating spending excess when compared with specialties such as internal medicine, cardiology, ophthalmology, radiology, and even family medicine.1 To avoid the dull blade of indiscriminate pay cuts, a new paradigm of value-based reimbursement has gained traction.