Remote patient monitoring vendors often promise effortless care — and leave practices with high staff burden and inconsistent billing. Waco Heart & Vascular, a private cardiology practice in Waco, Texas, hit that wall: denied claims and vendor fees left its…
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When Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health opened its comprehensive orthopedic center, A. Bobby Chhabra, MD, chair of orthopedic surgery at UVA, had already spent nearly a decade helping bring the project to life. The building gave the department room to grow.…
For years, some of the biggest advances in spine surgery have happened inside the operating room: better implants, navigation, robotics, minimally invasive techniques. Rachel Bratescu, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon at Washington, D.C.-based George Washington University Hospital’s Spine and Pain…
Many health systems invest heavily in analytics but still wrestle with fragmented reporting, unclear governance and inconsistent data standards. Those gaps grow more consequential the moment a major analytics or reporting build enters the picture. Children’s Mercy took a different…
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Orthopedic practices across the South are steadily adding locations, with both independent groups and major health systems expanding their regional footprints. Here are five recent orthopedic practice openings to know, as reported by Becker’s since July 15:
Nima Salari, MD, is not opposed to spinal fusion. He is opposed to making it the starting point. Before immobilizing a segment of the spine, the spine surgeon at Phoenix-based Desert Institute for Spine Care considers whether the same problem…
CMS’s decision to make the Comprehensive Joint Replacement Extended Model mandatory starting in 2028 is drawing cautious optimism about value-based care’s potential alongside concerns about consolidation and who the model will reward. The federal mandate will reshape how joint replacement…
Los Angeles-based Luskin Orthopaedic Institute for Children broke ground on a $24 million project to expand pediatric orthopedic care and add an Advanced Imaging Center. The center will feature a 3T Siemens MRI system and is expected to reduce MRI…
Globus Medical reported second-quarter worldwide net sales of $789.6 million, up 5.9% year over year, and raised its full-year non-GAAP diluted earnings per share guidance while reaffirming its 2026 revenue outlook. GAAP net income in Q2 fell 25.3% year over…
An Alabama woman sued Boston Scientific and Boston Scientific Neuromodulation, alleging one of the companies’ spinal cord stimulator systems caused injuries after it was implanted to treat chronic pain. The complaint was filed July 30 in the U.S. District Court…
