Michael G. Ciccotti, MD, has watched nearly every part of ulnar collateral ligament care change. The director of the sports medicine team at Philadelphia-based Rothman Orthopaedics trained under Frank Jobe, MD, who developed the operation that became known as Tommy…
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For years, joint replacement surgeons responded to falling reimbursement by getting more efficient. They shortened hospital stays, moved appropriate cases outpatient, reduced readmissions, optimized patients before surgery and absorbed more of the work before and after the operating room. When…
Endoscopic spine surgery is advancing faster than the workforce trained to perform it. That, Ben Burch, MD, believes, is the field’s real bottleneck. “I don’t think we have a technology problem in spine surgery,” Dr. Burch, an orthopedic spine surgeon…
Revenue at Aurora Spine fell 18.7% to $3.66 million in the second quarter of 2026, from $4.50 million during the same period in 2025. “The second-quarter results were disappointing,” CEO Trent Northcutt said in an Aug. 27 news release, pointing…
Phoenix-based OrthoArizona is adding clinics, imaging, surgery centers and physicians across Arizona. For CEO Rajan Bhatt, MD, the harder challenge is not finding reasons to grow. It is building an organization large enough to capture that demand without losing the…
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The spine surgeon shortage is often framed as a future problem. Some of the numbers, and surgeons’ experiences, suggest parts of it are already here. Spine’s workforce is drawn from both orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery, making national workforce trends harder…
The surgeon may still make the final decision in the operating room, however, many of the decisions that determine whether a patient ever gets there are happening somewhere else. Insurers, algorithms, reimbursement formulas, referral pathways and federal payment models are…
The FDA granted 510(k) clearance to Spineart’s Perla TL application for use with eCential Robotics’ Op.n Navigation and Robotic-Assisted Platform. The clearance expands the application’s use with the Op.n platform to robotic-assisted workflows, according to an Aug. 26 news release.…
Bay City, Mich.-based McLaren Bay Region opened a center for orthopedics and rehabilitation in Bangor Township, Mich., marking a milestone in its $53.6 million renovation of the system’s west side Bay County campus, according to an Aug. 25 WNEM report.…
Complex spine surgery has become extraordinarily precise about anatomy. Surgeons can measure alignment, model sagittal balance and plan where a reconstruction should begin and end. Yet some of the factors that ultimately determine whether a patient does well may never…