By Michael Wong, JD, Co-authored with Lynn Razzano, RN, MSN, ONCC, November 18,2016 According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), hip and knee replacements are the most common inpatient surgery for Medicare beneficiaries. In 2014, there were more than 400,000 procedures, costing more than $7 billion for the hospitalizations. CMS says that there […]