An aggressive effort to curb opioid abuse has been underway in Washington since last year, when lawmakers required physicians to refer patients taking high dosages of opioids to a pain specialist for evaluation if their condition was not improving, according…
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Five pain management physicians discuss best practices in their pain management clinics, including switching to electronic medical records, developing quality outcomes databases and gathering patient feedback to improve center performance.
Leaders within the North American Spine Society have partnered with organizations from around the country to launch a pilot program for a national spine registry database. "The main purpose of it is to be able to derive information relative to…
CMS has announced the first 27 accountable care organizations to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, effective this month.
On April 10, 2012, The Utah Department of Technology Services and the Utah Department of Health announced the total number of individuals affected by the breach had grown. They reported 280,000 individuals had their Social Security numbers stolen from a…
James Andrews, MD, will perform elbow surgery on Oakland Athletics relief pitcher Joey Devine, according to an MLB report.
Life Spine, a Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based spine device company, has reported a 37.9 percent growth in sales during the first quarter of 2012.
Biotechnology company Arteriocyte has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to initiate a Phase I clinical trial with its Magellan MAR01 technology for treating compartment syndrome in extremity trauma patients.
Giles R. Scuderi, MD, vice president of orthopedic services for North Shore-LIJ Health System, was appointed president of The Knee Society.
Walter Eckman, MD, has limited his practice at Aurora Spine Center in Tupelu, Miss., to exclusively minimally invasive spine surgery. For the past 10 years, he has been performing a minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion technique as an outpatient…