Karen Reiter, administrator at DISC Sports & Spine Center in Marina del Rey, Calif., discusses five initiatives her surgery center has taken on to improve the patient and physician experience at the ASC.
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At the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting 2013 in Chicago Stuart Weinstein, MD, discussed the organization's advocacy wing and why it's crucial for orthopedic and spine surgeons to become engaged in political advocacy in the session titled "Healthcare…
At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, in Chicago, Charles R. Gordon, MD, will give a presentation titled "Succeeding in the Face of Challenges – Core Strategies from the Front Line."
George Rappard, MD, founder of the Los Angeles Minimally Invasive Spine Institute, is serving as the principal investigator of a clinical trial studying the Device for Intervertebral Assisted Motion as a minimally invasive alternative for back pain treatment.
BlueCross BlueShield has named Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., a Blue Distinction Center in the areas of spine surgery and knee and hip replacement, according to an Argus Leader report.
Here are 18 spine surgeons and specialists that were recently appointed to prestigious positions or achieved notable accomplishments.
The HHS Office of Inspector General has issued a special fraud alert focused on specific attributes of physician-owned distributorships the agency believes "produce substantial fraud and abuse risk and pose dangers to patient safety."
Westside Surgical Hospital in Houston, a multispecialty physican-owend hospital, has acquired the Mazor Robotics Renaissance system, one of seven systems being used in Texas, according to a Mazor Robotics news release.
Jeffrey Carlson, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon and the president and managing partner of Orthopaedic and Spine Center, in Newport News, Va. He is also the chief of surgery at Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News.
A. Nick Shamie, MD, a spine surgeon with the UCLA Health System, discusses how the sequester and looming budget cuts will impact spine surgeons in the future.