Free tells you whether to negotiate.
National-average estimates of what your total knee and hip replacement cases are worth to a facility, how CMS's CY2027 proposal changes your wRVU compensation, and how employed vs. collections-based pay compares. Free for AAHKS members, indefinitely. The paid edition uses your own hospital's wage index, IME, DSH, and payer mix instead of national averages: free tells you whether to negotiate; paid tells you what number to bring.
What it does
Enter your case volume, $/wRVU rate, and a few practice assumptions, and the model walks through four national-average views:
- Facility value per case, DRG 469/470 and HOPD, shown as a typical range and at your annual volume
- wRVU per case, CY2026 vs. CY2027 proposed, with the dollar impact at your own rate
- Surgeon share of total episode payment, matching AAHKS's published methodology
- Employed vs. collections-based compensation at your own case volume and assumptions
How this differs from the full calculator
This edition uses national averages, not your own hospital's wage index, IME, DSH, or payer mix, and it contains no hospital-specific data at all. If you have a code for the full edition, there's a box inside this tool to unlock it directly.