For years, healthcare has treated physician practice as a binary choice. Become employed by a health system or remain independent. Join private equity or stay private. The debate has shaped countless boardroom discussions and physician recruiting conversations. It has also…
Author: Sophie Eydis
Orthopedic surgery spends a great deal of time worrying about its future workforce. Will there be enough surgeons? How will programs recruit talent? Can the specialty keep pace with growing patient demand? For Amiethab Aiyer, MD, division chief of foot…
A hybrid surgical approach for treating lumbar spondylolisthesis and multilevel spinal stenosis was associated with a 9.1% reoperation rate in a retrospective case series published June 12 in the Journal of Neurosurgery. The study evaluated 33 patients who underwent a…
A pilot study from New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine found no procedure-related complications among 27 patients who received a bone marrow aspirate concentrate injection during lumbar microdiscectomy and were followed for one year. The study, published in the July…
Rib Mountain, Wis.-based Bone & Joint has broken ground on a new location in Rhinelander, Wis., expanding access to orthopedic, physical therapy and pain management services in the region. The facility is expected to open in 2027, according to a…
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Rochester (N.Y.) Regional Health has begun construction on a $17.5 million orthopedic and neurosciences center in Canandaigua, N.Y. The center will occupy an existing 39,000-square-foot facility and consolidate several specialty practices currently operating at separate locations in the city, including…
The Global Spine Initiative highlighted several organizational milestones during its first year, including participation in the FDA’s Total Product Life-Cycle Advisory Program Pilot and acceptance of a symposium at the 2025 North American Spine Society’s Annual Meeting Scientific Program in…
Amplio Spine has finalized its acquisition of the KeyLift expandable interlaminar stabilization system from FloSpine and launched national commercialization of the device. The transaction included KeyLift’s intellectual property portfolio, FDA 510(k) clearance, finished inventory and distributor relationships. Financial terms were…
In spine surgery, some of the most important decisions are made when something appears to be going wrong. A neuromonitoring signal suddenly disappears. An alarm sounds. A tracing drops. The surgeon has to decide whether a nerve is actually in…
Orthopedic surgeons spend years learning how to perform complex operations. Patients often remember something else. How long it took to get an appointment. Whether someone returned a phone call. How quickly an MRI was scheduled. Whether anybody seemed to know…