US Orthopedic Alliance has selected 2bPrecise to provide its precision medicine platform to its more than 100 orthopedic surgeons, The Daily News reported May 24.
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Gainesville, Fla.-based practice management group Orthopedic Care Partners expanded into Missouri and affiliated with St. Louis-based Motion Orthopedics, according to a May 24 announcement.
Yavapai Regional Medical Group's Orthopedic Surgery at Dignity Health is expanding to a new location in Prescott Valley, Ariz., Signal AZ reported May 21.
Mark Vorherr will be the new CEO at Cincinnati-based Mayfield Brain & Spine, the practice announced May 24.
Orthopedic practice consolidation is expected to increase in the coming years as hospital systems, insurers and private equity firms continue to recruit physicians and smaller physician-owned practices explore strategic options in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jeremy Smith, MD, was named Hoag Orthopedic Institute's division chief of surgical spine, the Irvine, Calif.-based practice announced May 20.
Chillicothe, Ohio-based Adena Health System is on schedule to open the Adena Orthopedic and Spine Institute in September, The Highland County Press reported May 20.
Phoenix-based HonorHealth on May 20 opened a $44 million neuroscience institute in Scottsdale, the Phoenix Business Journal reported.
Coastal Orthopedics has broken ground on a facility in Bradenton, Fla., two months after it began work on an 88,000-square-foot headquarters in Lakewood Ranch, Fla., Sarasota Magazine reported May 19.
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