DISC Surgery Center has added 17 physician partners to its recently opened ASC in West Palm Beach, Fla. The physicians specialize in spine surgery, orthopedic surgery, total joint replacement and vascular surgery, according to a June 29 news release. The…
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Gregory Zipfel, MD, head of the Taylor Family Department of Neurosurgery at WashU Medicine in St. Louis, has been elected president of the Society of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Zipfel began his one-year term May 17 He has led the department…
Fort Pierce, Fla.-based Nova Ortho and Spine added Southeastern Surgery Center in Tallahassee, Fla. to its network of surgical facilities, bringing its total to 12 locations. Cardiff Lexington, a healthcare holdings company, announced the addition in a June 29 news…
Orthopedic practices leave revenue on the table in ways that are easy to overlook: an idle OR, a missed call, a late-night note, a denial waiting in the rework queue. Each looks like a routine operational snag on its own,…
Real-time medication price transparency is no longer a someday ambition. As of 2025, 75 percent of hospitals had integrated real-time prescription benefit information for at least some payers, CMS has required Medicare Part D plans to support these tools since…
Jul 16, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
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- Christie Callahan, Chief Product Officer, Interra Health
- Lauren Hackenberg, Senior Director, Provider Capabilities, Optum
Scarcity has always shaped healthcare. “Triage” assumes there isn’t enough to treat everyone at the level they need. “Population health” often means concentrating limited resources on the highest-risk sliver of a panel. But a new generation of clinically safe AI voice…
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Most AI implementations don’t fail because of the technology. They fail because organizations focus on deployment instead of behavior change. Clinicians don’t resist innovation — they resist disruption that doesn’t clearly improve patient care or make their day easier. In…
Jul 30, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Matthew Brown, DSO Partnerships, Dandy
- Dr. Layla Lohmann, Co-Founder and Clinical Director, Apex Dental Partners
For decades, rotator cuff surgery has been treated as a mechanical problem. A tendon tears. A surgeon brings it back to bone. Anchors and sutures hold it in place. The operation succeeds if the repair is strong enough to heal.…
For two decades, the financial risk in Medicare’s value-based experiments landed on institutions. Hospitals took on the bundles. Accountable care organizations absorbed the shared savings and the shared losses. The individual surgeon mostly kept billing fee-for-service and let the layer…
Laminoplasty — a cervical spine procedure that expands the spinal canal and relieves cord compression without fusing any vertebrae — is motion-preserving, well-established in Asia and Europe and supported by long-term outcomes data, Siamak Yasmeh, MD, a spine surgeon at…