Craig Antell, DO, a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician at Madison Avenue Physical Rehabilitation and Wellness in New York, which includes a sports medicine practice, discusses four ways sports medicine practices can negotiate more successful contracts with payors.
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The American Medical Association has voted to adopt a new policy on return to play for high school athletes with concussions, according to an organization news release.
As vice president of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine and former board member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Christopher D. Harner, MD, certainly has a wealth of leadership experience. He is a physician with UPMC Center…