Implants are one of the most expensive items needed for orthopedic-driven ASCs. Julie Martin, assistant vice president for surgical services for all three campuses of HealthOne in Denver, and Meg Tomlinson, administrator at Metrocrest Surgery Center in Carrollton, Texas, discuss…
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Recovery audit contractors are expected to expand beyond hospitals and spend more time on physicians' billing, shifting from automated to complex reviews of these claims, according to Paul Spencer, a consultant at Fi-Med Management in Wauwautosa, Wis.
Ashley Will, director of marketing at Laser Spine Institute in Tampa, Fla., has been recognized by Tampa Bay Business Journal as one of the 2010 Up & Comers in the under 30 category, according to a practice news release.
Mark Lovell, MD, founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports Medicine Concussion Program and co-creator of ImPACT, recently spoke with the Indiana Gazette about sports-related concussions and how athletes can prevent multiple concussions.
The Scoliosis Research Society's database on morbidity and mortality is an effective tool for gathering information on complication rates and benchmarking surgical outcomes, according to an article published in Spine.
Philip Elizondo, MD, will now be practicing orthopedic surgery at Cookeville (Tenn.) Regional Medical Center, according to a Cookeville Times report.
Robert McBride, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and president of the Charlotte, N.C.-based OrthoCarolina, will be returning to Haiti next month to continue treating the country's underprivileged population, according to a report from the Union County Weekly.
Stress across the elbow is concentrated in the posterior part of the trochlea and baseball may produce excessive or repetitive stress there as well as on the anterior part of the capitellum, according to a study published in The American…
The transforminal lumbar interbody fusion procedure is well-known among spine surgeons, and new advances in technology have made it possible to perform the TLIF on patients with chronic back pain as a minimally invasive procedure. When performing the procedure, the…