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David Rust, MD, orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine physician, has joined St. Luke's Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Duluth, Minn., according to a Duluth News Tribune report.

Sports medicine physician Melissa Mascaro, MD, has joined Vanguard Medical Group in Verona, N.J., according to a SportsTourismNews.com report.

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Bob Woodward will give a presentation titled "Washington, D.C., the Budgets, Healthcare and America."

Medicine has been thought of as a profession for much longer than it has been considered a business. Spine surgeons undergo rigorous training to learn how to perform the functions of their profession, but as healthcare reform continues to change…

Here are four orthopedic or spine device companies that had moves among leaders and executives.

Here five spine surgeons and experts in their field discuss what the most fulfilling part of practicing as a spine surgeon is.

Carolyn Neumann, CPC, Senior Manager, Coding & Coverage Access at Specialty Healthcare Advisers, discusses the challenges for coding spine surgery in ambulatory surgery centers and reimbursement trends for the future. Ms. Neumann will be discussing these themes further in a…

The following hospital and/or health system job eliminations were announced or implemented within the past month. They are listed by the number of employees or positions affected.

We are increasingly asked about different models for surgery center joint ventures. Here are brief descriptions of five different functional models. This article provides a simple assessment of the different surgery center joint venture models. This is of course not…

Brian Perri, DO, is an orthopedic spine surgeon who practices with Beverly Hills (Calif.) Spine Surgery and is an attending surgeon Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles. He previously served as the associate director of orthopedic spine surgery at Cedars-Sinai Institute…