Author: Claire Wallace

Global medical technology company Surgalign ended the fourth quarter of 2022 with $20.6 million in revenue, following an expansion of its Holo Portal guidance platform into Virginia and Texas. 

Spine and orthopedic experts in March spoke with Becker's about topics from prior authorization to new trends in artificial intelligence. 

Meeker-based Colorado Advanced Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Spine serves patients in the White River Valley area, specializing in knee replacements, hip replacements and more. Here are six things to know about the practice: 

Bioretec, a developer of bioresorbable orthopedic implants, has earned market authorization for its RemeOs trauma screw in the U.S. 

The University of Alabama Medical Center's program in Birmingham was the orthopedic surgery residency program with the most Freida database interest in 2022, according to a March 9 report from the American Medical Association.

Tyler Smith, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon at Roseville, Calif.-based Sutter Health, has completed his 50th case using Augmedics' Xvision spine navigation system, according to a March 28 tweet from Augmedics. 

Armodios Hatzidakis, MD, surgeon at Denver-based Western Orthopedics, Denver Surgery Center and Rose Medical Center, has completed the first U.S. clinical case using Stryker's Tornier pyrocarbon humeral head for shoulder hemiarthroplasty. 

Derek Jenkins, MD, an adult reconstruction surgeon at East Providence, R.I.-based University Orthopedics, has become the first surgeon in New England to use Depuy Synthes' Emphasys system for a total hip replacement surgery. 

From a Major League Baseball surgeon to a university chair, here are four orthopedic surgeons who retired or stepped down from their roles in the first quarter of the year: 

Sage Transparency, a healthcare transparency database from the Employee's Forum of Indiana, has named the ASCs charging the highest percentage above Medicare payments to commercial insurers in every state based on the facility's Medicare reimbursement rate.