Becker's Spine Review published a roundup of five orthopedic CEOs on the future of the specialty, including Bryan Kelly, MD, MBA, President and CEO at HSS.

The future of orthopedics is being determined not just in the operating room, but in the C-suite. As outpatient migration, reimbursement pressure, consolidation and shifting patient expectations reshape the specialty, the leaders running the country’s largest orthopedic groups are placing different bets on what comes next.

Dr. Kelly told Becker’s that too many systems are chasing the wrong target by racing to add operating rooms and recruit surgeons. “It’s easy to fall into the idea that orthopedics is just about surgery,” Dr. Kelly said.

The organizations that win the next decade of musculoskeletal care will not be the ones with the most ORs. They will be the ones who treat orthopedics as a lifelong relationship with the patient’s body, running from prevention and performance through rehabilitation, regenerative medicine and surgery when necessary.

“HSS is not just a place you go when you’re injured,” he said.

Read the full article at beckersspine.com.