In the meantime, however, he has sought to limit the staff to the three lowest-cost knee implants.

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Knee implants were largely perfected a quarter century ago.

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Knee surgeons are as particular about their implants as professional tennis players are about their racquets.

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The surgeons now use a single manufacturer for seventy-five per cent of their implants, giving the hospital bargaining power that has helped slash its knee-implant costs by half.

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