It seems fitting that the homepage of Dr. Manish Gupta's Sports & Orthopedic Center in Boca Raton, Fla., is headed by a link to the surgeon's fantasy football picks. As a board-certified sports medicine and reconstruction specialist, Dr. Gupta has…
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Problems with medical coding can occur as a result of inaccurate physician coding, bad modifiers or payor regulation changes. In order to avoid returned claims and billing fraud, physicians and coders must understand payor regulations and meticulously record billing claims.…
Boyd Haynes, MD, an orthopedic surgeon with Orthopaedic & Spine Center performed Virginia's first outpatient total knee replacement surgery earlier this month in Newport News, Va. The procedure lasted a little over an hour and the patient was able to…
Kenneth Light, MD, who practices in San Francisco, performed the first neck fusion reversal in the United States, according to a news release.
Todd C. Bonvallet, MD, has been named medical director of The Spine Center in Chattanooga Tenn., according to a report from The Chattanoogan.
Biomet, a Warsaw, Ind.-based musculoskeletal medical products manufacturer, acquired the assets of Cytosol Laboratories, a Braintree, Mass.-based small volume anticoagulants producer, according to a Biomet news release.
Ellipse Technologies' initial clinical trial of the MAGEC Remote Control shows the implant system as a possibly effective treatment for scoliosis in children, according to a company news release.
Champ Baker, MD, a physician at Columbus, Ga.'s The Hughston Clinic, was presented with the 37th annual 2010 Robert E. Lech Mr. Sports Medicine Award at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's annual meeting in Providence, R.I., according to…
David Martin, MD, serves as director of sports medicine and professor of orthopedic surgery at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. A noted expert on sports medicine, Dr. Martin specializes in arthroscopy of the shoulder and knee, trauma and sports…
The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine supports a new method for physicians to help identify athletes at risk for damaging their ACL, according to an AOSSM news release.