Orthopedics is the biggest healthcare problem for employers and they don't know it...
MSK is 5.7% of our GDP. A rough estimate is $1.14 Trillion per year.
It is the largest bucket of medical care.
It exceeded defense spending in 2014 (the year of the report).
And it keeps growing each year.
These visuals show the breakdown by age and diagnosis.
We need to stop looking at the data with OP vs IP vs Professional. That gives us nothing to work with.
We solve healthcare problems by diagnosis.
_How do we solve diabetes?
_how do we solve mental health?
_the most expensive, how do we solve for MSK?
For employer aged patients it makes even more sense to focus on MSK.
Let's focus on the diagnosis and solve for each one of these. It is the way of the most successful companies.
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For reference:
Circulatory - cardiac (heart disease)
Respiratory - lungs, COPD, asthma, pneumonia, etc.
Factors of health services: generally primary care diagnosis.
Source: Bone & Joint Initiative, commissioned by President Bush:
