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Spine surgery has evolved dramatically in recent decades as new technology and techniques have made some procedures more minimally invasive, efficient and quicker to recover from. In some cases, surgeries that once required a lengthy hospital stay can now be…
Michael Ast, MD, of New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery was named chief medical officer of Ospitek, the medtech company said Nov. 2.
Concord Hospital Orthopaedics-Laconia (N.H.) expanded its orthopedic surgery team with two additions.
For the last three years, hospitals have averaged losses for every inpatient primary hip replacement they have performed, and over two years have averaged losses for every inpatient primary knee replacement, according to an Oct. 26 "Strata and Syntellis Performance…
Centinel Spine, a global medical device company and the creator of the Prodisc total disc replacement product line, has exceeded $17 million in revenue in the third quarter of the year, its highest grossing quarter to date.
After retiring from the NFL, several former players have turned to careers in orthopedic and spine surgery or other specialties, with some even serving the teams they played for.
The volume of orthopedic procedures occurring in the outpatient setting is now 33 times higher than the volume of procedures in the inpatient setting, according to an Oct. 26 "Strata and Syntellis Performance Trends" report, which reviewed data from 2,000…
While UnitedHealthcare has recently taken steps to remove several orthopedic and spine codes from its list of procedures requiring prior authorization, surgeons are not necessarily seeing positive outcomes from code removals.
Carl Hasselman, MD, joined WVU Medicine United Hospital Center in Bridgeport, W.Va., The Exponent Telegram reported Nov. 2.