I live in Alaska. Because of the cost of medical care up here my insurance uses a service that looks for doctors across the country that can do our surgeries at better prices. They screen the doctors for things like numbers of similar operations per year, number of years experience, and success rates. These are not cheapo doctors. I say that because they use some of the same doctors in Seattle that we would have chosen anyway. For my hip, BMI was an issue that affected my options for surgeons.
For my bilateral hip replacement, they introduced me to Dr. Paul Saadi of Dallas Bone and Joint. He is affiliated with Legent in Plano. I am a year out from the surgeries and I am very satisfied with the results. I also really liked Dr. Saadi as a person.
PS. Prices for medical care in Alaska are sky high. The service my insurance uses, handles payment for the doctor, hospital, PT, flights for the patient and one person to accompany, hotels, food/taxi/miscellaneous per diem and another payment for post surgery AND they still save our insurance 1000’s of dollars as well. My bill for all this was $0.
PPS. Everyone is different but just a word to the wise. I get constipated with opioids and because the hip surgery is near the gastro system, I had an ileus for both surgeries. I got constipated with the opioids for my TKRs but no ileus. I don’t blame the doctors but more how my body reacted to the opioids and pain. It basically shut down my gut for a few days. After the first hip, I put myself on a liquid diet pre- and post- surgery for the second. That helped. No one tells you about this.