Costs attributed to OA significantly burden the US healthcare system. Total costs average almost $200 billion each year.2 Therapy costs (TKR, viscosupplementation, steroid injection) exceed $50 billion annually in the US.
More than 700,000 total knee replacement surgeries are performed in the United States annually.3
In the last decade, the number of total knee replacements performed annually in the United States has doubled.4