Novation's 2012 Budget Impact Projections Report and the National Economic Impact Survey shows healthcare supply costs are estimated to increase nearly 3 percent in 2013.
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Thomas San Giovanni, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, Fla., will perform a live-broadcast of a total ankle replacement, according to a BroadcastMed news release.
The September issue of Spine included statistics on spending related to ambulatory spine care from 1999 to 2008, according to US News Health.
Timothy Payne, MD, joined the Mayo Clinic Health System in Fairmont, Minn., according to the Fairmont Sentinel.
Here are 18 spine surgeons on the move this year.
Sarah Knievel, MD, a pain management specialist, has joined Mohave Pain Management and Kingman (Ariz.) Regional Medical Center, according to a report from The Cerbat Gem.
Millennium Laboratories has announced a pharmacogenetic test to help physicians prescribe opioids more effectively.
The International Association for the Study of Pain's press has published a new book titled "Pain Comorbidities: Understand and Treating the Complex Patient."
Several leaders in ambulatory surgery centers will gather at the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago to participate in a panel discussion on hospital relationship possibilities for physicians and surgery centers.
Edward Marcheschi, MD, a sports medicine and concussion management specialist, has joined The Christ Hospital Physicians in Cincinnati.