Rising overhead and decreasing reimbursements continue to challenge independent practices as consolidation continues to take hold across the healthcare industry.
Practice Management
A number of health systems have banked on spine and orthopedic care in 2021. Here are 23 hospitals and health systems expanding their services in those areas:
Sharonville, Ohio-based Beacon Orthopaedics opened its 25th office in West Chester Township, Cincinnati Business Courier reported Dec. 15.
Fifteen months ago, Rothman Orthopaedic Institute partnered with Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth to ease its expansion into Florida, and now the practice plans to open in California.
Carmel, Ind.-based Methodist Sports Medicine has changed the name of its physician group to Forté Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, the practice said Dec. 14.
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Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston will stop providing neurosurgery in April and is limiting several trauma surgeries effective immediately, NBC affiliate News Center Maine reported Dec. 13.
After a five-year legal saga, victims of former gymnastics physician Larry Nassar have reached a $380 million settlement with USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee and their insurers.
Tallahassee (Fla.) Orthopedic Clinic has been asked to wait five years to build a planned surgery center, The Dothan Eagle reported Dec. 13.
A center that's performed more than 25,000 minimally invasive procedures, another where 95 percent of patients are treated without surgery and 48 more spine practices to know:
Nicole Monsky, who was an executive at New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery, was named chief marketing officer for Greenwich, Conn.-based Spire Orthopedic Partners.