Author: Claire Wallace

Lamar Jackson, quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens, has been named the highest paid NFL player of 2023, with an $81.5 million contract, according to a Sept. 10 report from Forbes. 

UConn Health is planning to consolidate offices at its Brain & Spine Institute in a newly constructed building in Farmington, Conn., according to a Sept. 11 report from the Hartford Business Journal. 

FloSpine has successfully implanted the first Ti-Largo 3D printed cervical cage in partnership with the Research Park at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, according to a Sept. 12 report from South Florida Hospital News.

Robert Burke, MD, has completed his 1,000th procedure using OrthAlign's technology for total hip and knee replacements. 

Durham, N.C.-based EmergeOrtho and Charlotte, N.C.-based OrthoCarolina recently struck a new value-based care-focused partnership to promote a new payment model for their services, according to a Sept. 11 report from Business North Carolina. 

Resurgens Orthopaedics' Austell, Ga., location has become the first practice in the region to offer robotic assisted total knee replacements using Smith + Nephew's CORI Surgical System.

Every year, Healthgrades releases a list of the 100 best hospitals for orthopedic surgery in the U.S. Three hospitals in Virginia made the rankings in 2021, 2022 and 2023. 

UT Health East Texas is building a two-story, 20,000-square-foot, $12 million orthopedic and sports medicine-focused facility in Tyler, Texas, according to a Sept. 8 report from local news affiliate CBS19. 

The Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute, the official orthopedic provider for the University of Central Florida athletic teams and its Big 12 conference teams, is adding two physicians to the university medical roster. 

Every year, Healthgrades releases a list of the 100 best hospitals for orthopedic surgery in the U.S. Four hospitals in Texas made the rankings in 2021, 2022 and 2023.