Becker’s Spine Review

Stryker has completed its acquisition of ZuriMED, a privately held medical technology company that developed the FiberLocker System for rotator cuff repair. The acquisition adds the FiberLocker System to Stryker’s sports medicine portfolio, according to an Oct. 26 news release.…

Gaithersburg, Md.-based Adventist HealthCare has acquired Rockville, Md.-based Shady Grove Orthopaedics, an eight-physician practice. The practice transitioned to Adventist HealthCare Oct. 3, with its physicians and staff becoming health system employees, according to an Oct. 22 news release.  Shady Grove…

For spine surgeons, declining reimbursement is no longer just a financial concern. It is increasingly shaping which patients they can see, which procedures they can offer and how much time they can spend delivering care. From shrinking independent practices and…

The future of spine surgery may depend less on what happens in the operating room than on who controls everything that happens before it. For decades, spine practices have built their businesses around surgical expertise, procedural volume and, increasingly, ownership…

The highest paid orthopedic surgeon in Milwaukee earns $1,152,400, according to Medscape’s salary reporter tool, which is much higher than the mean annual wage of $373,570 orthopedic surgeons make according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here are the salaries…

In spine and orthopedic surgery, an abnormal MRI is not a surgical indication. But patients arrive convinced it is, and sorting through that disconnect is the most consequential part of the job, according to many surgeons. The question of when…

Some spine ASCs have stopped paying for implants by the screw. Frank Phillips, MD, a spine surgeon at Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, said his group’s ASCs pay vendors one fixed price per procedure, no matter what hardware goes in.…

The robot recommended a cut. James Gholson, MD, knew something was wrong. He was assisting a young orthopedic surgeon through her first robotic knee replacement. She had extensive training with the technology but relatively little experience performing the procedure manually.…