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    Germantown, Tenn.-based Campbell Clinic is planning on adding a fifth location in Cordova, Tenn., according to a Memphis Business Journal report.

  Steven Gitelis, MD, Edward Goldberg, MD and George Holmes, MD, of Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush received high rankings in patient communication in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, CMS' national survey of patient experience.

  SafeWire has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market its Y-Wire 2 orthopedic guidewire.

  Roger Härtl, MD, professor of neurological surgery and his spine team in collaboration with Larry Bonassar, PhD, and his biomedical engineering team, of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York have been named the 2014 winners of the Ronald…

Health IT company athenahealth recently released its 2014 PayerView Report which provides statistics and conclusions on payer-provider relationships.

The media has paid a lot of attention to physician compensation recently as a means to decrease the cost of care, but among spine patients — even surgical patients — the surgeon's compensation is just a small piece of a…

Researchers recently examined the Cochrane Back Review Group Trials Register electronic databases to analyze articles comparing the effectiveness of active rehabilitation with usual care in adults who underwent primary spinal decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis and published their results in…

  Insurance giant Humana sued Medtronic over the device company's promotion of spinal biologic Infuse.

In a Physicians Practice article, Owen Dahl, a nationally recognized medical practice management consultant and author, discusses strategies that medical practice staff can use to improve the physician-patient relationship.

  Genovel Orthopedics has signed a research and license agreement with New York University for the development and commercialization of a new technology for osteoarthritis of the knee.