From prior authorization requirements to value-based care initiatives and payer battles, nine spine leaders discuss the biggest challenges affecting their practice today.
Author: Alan Condon
Orthopedic practices are seeking strategic partnerships as consolidation, changing reimbursement, increasing value-based programs and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to transform the healthcare industry.
Lawrence-based OrthoKansas recently strengthened its robotic portfolio and is standing out as a destination for joint replacement procedures.
Orthopedic providers are pushing back against incoming prior authorization requirements, which they say bring increased administrative burdens and take away from time with patients.
Orthopedic surgeon and orthopedic oncologist Rajiv Rajani, MD, has been appointed chair of orthopedics at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, according to the El Paso Herald-Post.
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Stryker has made Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list for the 11th consecutive year, but dropped 80 places to 88th in 2021.
Orthopedic surgeon Eric Price, MD, received the 2021 Physician of the Year award for 'unparalleled quality' at Houston Methodist The Woodlands, according to local news outlet Hello Woodlands.
Orthopedic surgeon Matt Hollenbeck, MD, has performed Kansas' first successful vertebral body tethering procedure at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, NBC affiliate KSN.com reported April 13.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on April 12 broke ground on an $85 million surgical facility in Little Rock.
Orthobiologics company Kuros Biosciences has treated the first patient in a clinical trial comparing MagnetOs Putty to autograft for posterolateral spinal fusion.