Renown Regional Medical Center’s Dr. Jackson Brent Jones Performs over 5% of all Hip and Knee Replacements for Nevada Residents

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By: Jeffrey Maser  Nov. 20, 2017

Recent data shows that Dr. Jackson Brent Jones, a specialist in orthopedics at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, accounted for the 6th highest number of discharges under Medicare for Nevada residents from October 2015 to September 2016. Dr. Jones accounted for 239 Medicare discharges for Nevada residents to make up 0.28% of the 84,790 Medicare discharges for Nevada residents during the aforementioned time period (below).

Rank	Physician Name	Total Medicare Inpatient Discharges	% Of Nevada Resident Total Discharges
	All	84,790	100.00
1	Mark Henry Steinhauer	470	0.55
2	Robert J Tait	318	0.38
3	Karyn Rae Doddy	308	0.36
4	Farzin Farhang	287	0.34
5	Snehal Desai	255	0.30
6	Jackson Brent Jones	239	0.28
7	Shahid Wahid	228	0.27
8	Sanjay Nayyar	199	0.23
9	Frank Faris	176	0.21
10	Eric Martin Boyden	174	0.21

While physician discharge volume alone does not necessarily imply quality of care, it logically follows that a physician who commands a large volume of patients could be treating a high patient volume due to the quality of care associated with their discharges. Therefore, it is still valuable to understand which physicians in a specific community are accounting for a high volume of discharges within the community. A potential additional benefit to seeing a high volume physician for a specific area is that the physician may have more experience with local health issues and could treat such issues more effectively.

While Dr. Jones only ranked 6th in total Medicare inpatient discharge volume for Nevada residents, he ranked second in volume for orthopedic discharges. Out of the 10,569 orthopedics discharges from Nevada residents during the timeframe, Dr. Jones accounted for 223 of these discharges. This gives Dr. Jones a 2.11% share of the orthopedic discharges that were accounted for by Nevada Medicare enrollees during the time period analyzed.

Digging even deeper, we see that Dr. Jones performed the most hip and knee replacements for Nevada residents during the assessed time period (below). Dr. Jones’ 180 hip and knee replacement discharges amount to a 5.13% market share of the 3,510 hip and knee replacements from Nevada residents. This means that about 1 out of every 20 Nevada Medicare enrollees who needed a hip or knee replacement between October 2015 and September 2016 went to Dr. Jones for their procedure. Along with Dr. Jones’ high patient volume, he is also a local pioneer in his field having performed the first outpatient total hip replacement in northern Nevada back in June of 2016. While we must again recognize that volume alone does not necessarily entail quality of care, the data certainly shows that Dr. Jones is a very popular specialty physician for Nevada residents.

Rank	Physician Name	Total Medicare Inpatient Hip and Knee Replacement Discharges	% Of Nevada Resident Hip and Knee Replacement Discharges
	All	3,510	100.00
1	Jackson Brent Jones	180	5.13
2	Robert J Tait	179	5.10
3	Eric Martin Boyden	147	4.19
4	Michael R Edmunds	106	3.02
5	Sanjai Shukla	97	2.76
6	Parminder Kang	92	2.62
7	Paul Young Shonnard	88	2.51
8	Martin Anderson	87	2.48
9	James B Manning	83	2.36
10	Russell T. Nevins	80	2.28

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