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Family medicine physician Todd Johnson, MD, of Lincoln, Neb., abandoned insurance companies in favor of a fee-based practice, and is turning the traditional model of healthcare payment on its head, according to a Live Well Nebraska report.

Jacob Buchowski, MD, is a professor of orthopedic and neurological surgery and the director of the Center for Spinal Tumors at Washington University of St. Louis. 

Med Center Health and Western Kentucky University announced plans to construct a new sports medicine complex on the school's campus. 

The Physicians' Organization of West Michigan and the West Michigan Physicians Network are exploring a potential merger with Answer Health, MiBiz reports. 

A new center is aiming to make North Texas "the safest place in the country to play sports," the Dallas News reports.

Samuel Tabet, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at New Mexico Orthopaedics, a practice based in Albuquerque, N.M. He treats patients with knee and shoulder injuries, and has a particular interest in trauma, sports medicine and reconstructive surgery.

Here are five physicians who recently made headlines for performing innovative orthopedic procedures.

A patient implanted with Cambridge, Mass.-based InVivo Therapeutics' Neuro-Spinal Scaffold in the INSPIRE study has improved from a complete AIS A spinal cord injury to an incomplete AIS B spinal cord injury.

Castle Connolly honored Michael Gleiber, MD, as a Top Doctor in the West Palm Beach, Fla., region.

Gregory T. Lucier is propelling San Diego-based NuVasive into a new wave of spine dominance, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.