A Kentucky physician has received a five-year prison sentence and must forfeit $12,275 for illegally prescribing opioids at a time when he did not have a legitimate medical practice, the Lexington Herald Leader reports.
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A Stryker device and a Vertos Medical device will see a Medicare reimbursement boost for spine procedures in 2021.
From a new Zimmer Biomet partnership with a leading orthopedic institution to a former U.S. Army surgeon joining Johnson & Johnson's board of directors, here are the latest device company notes:
From a sports medicine surgeon who invented a mask to protect athletes from COVID-19 to another performing a knee procedure on an NFL player, here are the latest orthopedists making the news:
Wellington Hsu, MD, is a spine surgeon at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine.
A survey from ExplORer Surgical examined the role of digital tools and medical devices in healthcare, according to a Dec. 7 press release.
From a spine surgeon debuting a new interbody cage to surgeon moves, here are four spine surgeons making headlines over the past week:
Here are the most-read articles on Becker's Spine Review during the week of Dec. 7-12:
The International Association of Top Professionals named Robert Holtzman, MD, a neurosurgeon at Neurological Surgery PC in New Hyde Park, N.Y., Doctor of the Decade for 2021, according to a Dec. 9 news release.
Since the beginning of the year, Becker's has reported on one joint venture surgery center involving spine surgeons that opened and four more that are in the works: