Forty-one percent of orthopedic surgeons are salaried, and those surgeons earned an average of $24,923 more than orthopedic surgeons who were owners or partners in a practice or group, according to the 2010 Compensation & Employment Report from Locum Tenens.
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Joseph Burkhardt, DO, of Brookside Surgery Center in Battle Creek, Mich., will be participating in a 10-year follow-up trial of the ConforMIS iUni G2 knee resurfacing device, according to a report from Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News.
The Kentucky attorney general's office has released an opinion statement saying county governments do not have the power to ban pain clinics, according to a Lexington Herald-Leader news report.
Here are five ways orthopedic surgeons can add to their revenue stream.
Prescription opioid pain medications are driving an "epidemic" of unintentional overdose deaths, according to a news release by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
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A New Bern, N.C., pain management physician has pled guilty to healthcare fraud and been sentenced to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, according to a Sun Journal report. Michael K. Nunn, MD, practiced under Community Wellness Center in New Bern,…
Cone-beam CT technology can benefit spinal navigation because the X-ray emitter rotates around a fixed center and is able to take conventional images that can be reconstructed on any plane or three-dimensional images, according to an AAOS Now report by…
The intra-articular use of local anesthetics could be detrimental to human articular cartilage and chondrocytes, according to a study published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.
David R. Schmidt, MD, an orthopedic surgeon, has been selected as the chairman of the 2011 Valero Alamo Bowl, according to a San Antonio Business Journal report.
Stryker's President and CEO Stephen P. MacMillan recently discussed the recruitment of global employees, saying new additions to the American workforce aren't stacking up to their international counterparts, according to a Kalamazoo Gazette news report.