This is a column by Les Jebson, administrator of the Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Network at Prisma Health. Thirty years ago, Car and Track Magazine produced a calendar with luxury and bespoke car manufacturers’ greatest inventions. They would become known…
Practice Management
Indianapolis-based OrthoIndy is collaborating with WeShare Health to give the nonprofit healthcare-sharing organization’s members across Central Indiana access to the orthopedic practice’s services and specialists. Providers in WeShare Health’s network receive payment for eligible medical expenses in less than 14…
Roseburg, Ore.-based Umpqua Orthopedics will close for patient care Sept. 15, ending more than two decades of orthopedic service in Douglas County, The Roseburg Receiver reported Sept. 11. The practice announced the closure in a notice to patients; a reason…
A contract dispute set to push Philadelphia-based Rothman Orthopaedics out of Highmark Blue Shield’s Pennsylvania network Oct. 1 has escalated into a broader fight over out-of-network physician assistants and the federal process designed to resolve certain payment disputes without putting…
Winchester (Va.) Orthopaedic Associates, a division of the Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics, added Bone and Joint Specialists of Winchester (Va.). The partnership unites two orthopedic practices under the Winchester Orthopaedic Associates name. The combined practice now includes eight orthopedic physicians,…
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Philadelphia-based Rothman Orthopaedics will be out of network with Highmark Blue Shield and Federal Employee Program plans for care provided in Pennsylvania, effective Oct. 1. The change does not apply to appointments in New Jersey, where Rothman Orthopaedics will remain…
Phoenix-based OrthoArizona opened a $25 million, 50,000-square-foot orthopedic center in Glendale, Ariz., Sept. 2. The facility combines musculoskeletal care, an on-site ASC, physical therapy and imaging, including MRI, according to a Sept. 2 news release. The opening is part of…
Influence Healthcare signed a letter of intent to sublease and ultimately assume the master lease of a specialty hospital in the Dallas-Fort Worth area focused on spine and orthopedic surgery. The 24,000-square-foot facility has four operating rooms and is expected…
Baton Rouge (La.) General Medical Center opened Baton Rouge General Physicians – Orthopedics, expanding its surgical and orthopedic services. The clinic, led by orthopedic surgeon Austin Broussard, MD, offers orthopedic services for adult and adolescent patients, according to an Aug.…
Woodside Health has acquired Nansemond River Medical Center, a 33,000-square-foot medical outpatient building in Suffolk, Va., according to an Aug. 26 news release. The property is anchored by Sports Medicine & Orthopedic Center and houses multiple specialty clinical tenants. The…