The Medical Group Management Association recently asked 800 group practice professionals to rank seven of the largest health insurers on willingness to participate in payment innovation and professionals' perceptions of the payors.
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James Andrews, MD, founder of Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, recently performed knee surgery on WWE Champion CM Punk, also known as Phillip Jack Brooks, according to an Examiner report.
The Ohio Senate has passed a student-athlete concussion bill stating students would have to be removed immediately from play when they show signs of concussion, according to a report from The Columbus Dispatch.
Timothy Williams, MD, an orthopedic surgeon, performed the first operation in the United States using an iPod-based navigation system at Franciscan St. Francis Health in Indianapolis, according to a USA Today report.
Gary Stewart, MD, and Sourendra Raut, MD, of Resurgens Orthopaedics in Atlanta, recently participated in the Our Hearts to Your Soles event for charitable foot care.
Eric Olson, CEO of Amedica, discusses why his company's proprietary silicon nitride material has been so successful in the spine device market and where the company is headed in the future.
Allen Hord, MD, a pain management physician with Interventional Spine and Pain Management in Atlanta, served as a mission director for The Flying Doctors of America trip to Cambodia this fall.
Johns Hopkins researchers published an article, which said medical professionals need to rethink opioid prescribing to protect patients and overall public health, according to Health Canal.