Bundled Payments in Orthopedics: How One Missed Code Can Wipe Out Your Entire Case Margin

Orthopedic practices are performing more high-value procedures than ever before—joint replacements, spine surgeries, sports medicine interventions. Yet despite full schedules, many practices are seeing shrinking margins.

The culprit isn’t surgical outcomes or patient volume.
It’s bundled payments—and the hidden billing risks most practices underestimate.