The Wyoming Medical Center $42 million four-story tower will include a 20-room orthopedic and spine unit, according to a Casper Journal report.
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K. Matthew Warnock, MD, of Houston Orthopedics, has begun to offer his patients platelet-rich plasma injections, which is increasingly used as a treatment for sports related injuries.
David Altchek, MD, a board certified orthopedic surgeon, will perform arthroscopic surgery on both knees of Philadelphia 76ers center Andrew Bynum, according to a report by USA Today.
Illinois Bone & Joint Institute, with locations in the Chicagoland area, announced it will participate in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Bundled Payments for Care Improvement program. IBJI is the only independent physician group practice in the state, and…
Joseph Zavatsky, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon and section chief of spine in the department of orthopedics at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, where he works collaboratively with other orthopedic spine surgeons, neurosurgeons, pain management and PM&R physicians,…
Physician turnover has hit its highest rate since 2005, the first year the data was collected, according to the 8th annual Physician Retention Survey from Cejka Search and the American Medical Group Association.
Eric Grigsby, MD, recently performed the first minimally invasive spine surgery using the Totalis Direct Decompression procedure at Napa Surgery Center in Valle Verde, Calif.
At the 2011 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, voluntary conflict of interest disclosures were very common, and 100 percent were reported in the symposia, according to an article published in a recent issue of Journal of Bone &…
Healthcare prices have been an enigma within the U.S. healthcare system for many years now, and a report from the Catalyst for Payment Reform and the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute quantifies how a majority of states fail to enact…
Fred Naraghi, MD, is the director of the Comprehensive Spine Center in San Francisco. He is affiliated with a number of hospitals in San Francisco, including the California Pacific Medical Center. He is also a member of the North American…