Author: Claire Wallace

San Diego-based Synergy Orthopedic Specialists recently acquired San Diego Sports Medicine and Orthopedic center to create an orthopedic group with over 25 physicians. 

Foot and ankle device company Fusion Orthopedics has reached an agreement with medical device company Treace Medical in an ongoing patent dispute. 

Board-certified orthopedic surgeon Mark Freeman, MD, has joined Axis Research and Technologies, a bioskills, cadaver lab and surgical training company, as its chief medical advisor. 

Access to Centinel Spine's Prodisc L lumbar total disc replacement system is expanding as Aetna has updated its guidelines to include one-level lumbar total disc replacement in its coverage. 

Nineteen hospitals have received an orthopedic center of excellence designation from health accreditor DNV Healthcare.  

Medical City Frisco (Texas), an HCA Healthcare affiliate, has added Surgalign's Holo Portal Surgical Navigation System for lumbar spine procedures to its clinical toolkit. 

Cincinnati-based Mayfield Brain & Spine has opened its fifth location in the region on Cincinnati's east side, according to a March 1 report from the Cincinnati Business Courier. 

There are seven states in the U.S. where orthopedic surgeons make more than any other profession, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Sixty-nine hospitals and health systems have received an advanced certification for hip and knee replacements from health accreditor DNV Healthcare. 

Jeffrey DeClaire, MD, founder of the Michigan Knee Institute in Rochester Hills, has been named chief of the department of orthopedic surgery at Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital, also in Rochester Hills.