Robert “Bob” Draper Jr., MD, one of Baltimore’s first Black orthopedic surgeons and a former chief resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital, died Aug. 29 after a blood clot traveled to his heart. He was 79. Dr. Draper earned his medical…
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CMS’ 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and ASC Payment System Final Rule marked the largest single-year expansion of outpatient-eligible surgery since at least 2018, surpassing, in one year, the 59 procedures Becker’s tracked as added to the ASC-covered list…
Sidney (Mont.) Health Center partnered with Synergy Health Partners to expand its orthopedic services and will add two orthopedic surgeons this fall. Michael Calfee, MD, will begin seeing patients in October and James Ingram, MD, will begin seeing patients in…
Long Beach, Calif.-based Golden State Orthopedics & Spine provided notice of a data security incident. On July 2, Golden State Orthopedics & Spine detected unusual activity within its network and engaged third-party forensic experts to investigate, according to an Aug.…
Insight Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience, a Michigan-based healthcare provider, terminated its lobbying contract with Khoury Johnson Leavitt LLC, effective June 30, according to a Sept. 1 filing with the Lobbying Disclosure Act database. The relationship between IINN and the…
Carestream Healthcare International introduced the latest version of its DRX-LC Detector, which uses AI to support long-length imaging. The detector uses single-shot long-length imaging to capture long-bone and spine exams in one exposure, according to a Sept. 3 news release…
OrthoCarolina physician Edward C. Brown III was elected as a general member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons in August. Brown is in his eighth year in practice at OrthoCarolina, according to a Sept. 1 press release. American Shoulder…
Zimmer Biomet will relocate its global headquarters to another location in Warsaw, Ind., and donate its current global headquarters building to Winona Lake, Ind.-based Grace College. Grace College will gain ownership of the building in early 2027. The building, known…
Houston-based Fondren Orthopedic Group completed the development of a magnetically powered knee technology, with orthopedic surgeons performing the first procedure using the investigational device. Gregory Stocks, MD, president and orthopedic surgeon at Fondren Orthopedic Group, and Mark Brinker, MD, performed…
Every health system is being asked to make decisions about AI. Few leaders have the context they would like to guide those decisions. Fewer have had the chance to hear from the people who actually build it: How does a…
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