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Medical students at the University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine will soon have a new department of surgery to build on their patient care and surgical training, according to Northern Nevada Business Weekly.

There is substantial variation between states in Medicaid reimbursements for common inpatient orthopedic procedures, according to a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

Orthopedic surgeon Brian Seeto, MD, joined The CORE Institute in Phoenix. Dr. Seeto will work out of the West Phoenix and Peoria, Ariz., locations.

Joel Shobe, MD, is a board certified orthopedic surgeon at Minn.-based St. Cloud Orthopedics.

New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery's Answorth Allen, MD, performed an arthroscopic stabilization surgery on the right shoulder of New York Knicks' guard Ron Baker.

Stanford (Calif.) University Medical Center researchers compared decompression alone against fusion for treating degenerative spondylolisthesis.

On the heels of a U.S. House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing on Medicare's part in opioid management Feb. 6, CMS wants to institute a seven-day limit on initial opioid prescriptions, Medscape reports.

Here are six minimally invasive spine surgery devices and technologies making a splash in the industry.

Gregory DiFelice, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at the New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery and New York Presbyterian Hospital.

The U.S. medical imaging industry is transforming, emphasizing collaborative population health-based approaches over a more traditional episodes of care delivery model, according to a Frost & Sullivan report.