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Ameritox, a company that provides pain medication monitoring, announced its support for the new recommendations for urine drug monitoring for long-term opioid therapy presented at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's 28th Annual Meeting.

Scoliosis Research Society recently sent a letter in response to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota's medical policy IV-85 for the use of bone morphogenic protein.

Here are six tips to improve productivity at orthopedic and spine surgery centers.

CMS has released the proposed rule for Stage 2 requirements for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs. The Stage 2 rule includes criteria eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals must meet in order to qualify…

Orthofix recently announced net sales at $151 million for the fourth quarter of 2011, a 5 percent increase over the same period last year.

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland announced researchers have developed a new way to measure pain based on a patient's movement.

Millennium Laboratories announced it will sponsor two education initiatives at the American Academy of Pain Management annual meeting aimed at teaching physicians safer opioid prescribing practices and addressing medication-taking behaviors of pain patients.

Here are 15 hospitals expanding their orthopedic services.

Red Sox relief pitcher Bobby Jenks underwent emergency surgery in Phoenix following an alleged botched spinal decompression surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, according to a Boston Globe report.

This is a submitted article written by Alfred O. Bonati, MD, founder of The Bonati Spine Institute in Hudson, Fla.