Author: Staff

Here are five case volume statistics about surgery centers that perform more than 50 percent orthopedics, from VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.

Integra Spine in Plainsboro, N.J., has acquired substantially all assets of Innovative Spinal Technologies, according to a release from its parent, Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corp.

Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, will house a new orthopedic and spinal center in its partially completed 12-story addition, according to a report from the Dayton Daily News.

The FDA has cleared Wright Medical Group's Pro-Stim Injectable Osteoinductive Bone Graft Substitute, allowing a limited group of trial centers to validate pre-clinical findings in clinical use, according to a release from Wright Medical Group.

Arthrex, based in Naples, Fla., has won a patent infringement case against DePuy Mitek, involving an anterior cruciate ligament repair system, according to a release from Dickstein Shapiro, a law firm representing Arthrex.

Plinio A. Caldera, MD, has become the seventh member of Houston-based Orthopedic Associates, according to the Tribune.

Many orthopedic surgeons are nervous about switching to an electronic medical record, and Midwest Orthopaedics, a four-physician practice in Shawnee Mission, Kan., was no exception. This summer, however, Midwest's physicians swallowed their jitters, picked a vendor and started the transition.…

Franklin Beltre, DPM, of Houston was arrested on charges he defrauded Medicare and Medicaid at his clinic in San Juan, Texas, according to a report in The Monitor.

Matthew Bible (Orthopaedic Associates, Oklahoma City, Okla.). Mr. Bible is the administrator of Orthopaedic Associates, a 10-surgeon practice in Oklahoma City, Okla., which also operates an MRI and a surgery center. Since joining the practice in April 2003, Mr. Bible…

OA Centers for Orthopaedics, a 23-physician practice in Portland and Saco, Maine, has established new walk-in sports injury clinics at both locations, according to Maine Business.