Indiana device companies are looking for ways to absorb revenue reductions resulting from the 2.3 percent medical device excise tax since they will not be able to pass the costs on to hospital customers, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal.
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Lewisville, Texas-based Orthofix International's gross profits dipped in the first quarter, down 17 percent from 2012's first quarter due to substantial declines in spine and orthopedic implant sales.
Texas Governor Rick Perry has appointed eight members to the state's medical board, including Karl Swann, MD, board-certified neurosurgeon, according to a report by The Rancher.
American Spine has announced that Malini Narayanan, MD, Charles Winters, MD, and Said Osman, MD, will begin practicing at its Waldorf, Md., location.
Kansas Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine at Cypress in Wichita has recruited Camden Whitaker, MD, an orthopedic surgeon previously of Kansas Spine Specialists, according to a Wichita Business Journal report.
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Physician-owned hospitals are seeking waivers, deploying lobbyists and navigating around restrictions on their expansion included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Andrew Cappuccino, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon with Buffalo (N.Y.) Spine Surgery, and has served as an executive producer of the feature film Arthur Newman, according to a wgrz.com report.
Farmingdale, N.Y.-based Misonix appointed Scott Ludecker as vice president of global sales and marketing.
Precision Spine has named Tony Dimun as special business development, merger and acquisitions adviser and a member of the company's board of directors.
Robert J. Banco, MD, is the founder of Boston Spine Group and is an associate clinical professor in the orthopedic surgery department at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He served as spine section chief of the department of…