Author: Alan Condon

Volta will implement free electric vehicle charging at Emory Musculoskeletal Institute in Brookhaven, Ga., when it opens next fall.

A Kentucky physician has received a five-year prison sentence and must forfeit $12,275 for illegally prescribing opioids at a time when he did not have a legitimate medical practice, the Lexington Herald Leader reports.

A Stryker device and a Vertos Medical device will see a Medicare reimbursement boost for spine procedures in 2021.

From a new Zimmer Biomet partnership with a leading orthopedic institution to a former U.S. Army surgeon joining Johnson & Johnson's board of directors, here are the latest device company notes:

From a sports medicine surgeon who invented a mask to protect athletes from COVID-19 to another performing a knee procedure on an NFL player, here are the latest orthopedists making the news:

The International Association of Top Professionals named Robert Holtzman, MD, a neurosurgeon at Neurological Surgery PC in New Hyde Park, N.Y., Doctor of the Decade for 2021, according to a Dec. 9 news release.

Since the beginning of the year, Becker's has reported on one joint venture surgery center involving spine surgeons that opened and four more that are in the works:

Shepherd Center, a 152-bed nonprofit hospital in Atlanta, has received an $80 million grant from Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus and his wife, according to a Dec. 10. news release.

An inmate at Greenwood (S.C.) County Detention Center escaped from the custody of a prison officer during a Dec. 8 orthopedic visit, only to be found two hours later, the Index-Journal reports.

Seven spine surgeons reflect on their career and the state of the field today to offer emerging surgeons best practices for establishing themselves.