The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics in Bethesda, Md., is installing a Surgimate Practice platform to facilitate surgical scheduling across its 28 divisions in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
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When cost-sharing is waived for patients using bundled payment programs for spinal fusion and total joint replacement, surgery costs can decrease by an average of $4,229, or 10.7 percent, according to a study by nonprofit organization Rand Corp.
Over the past two years, Addison, Texas-based MpowerHealth has invested more than $7 million to develop data analytics and information technology to support clinically integrated networks in Texas, Ohio and Georgia, among other states.
ChristianaCare and Delaware Neurosurgical Group, both in Newark, Del., received approval for a joint venture spine surgery center at ChristianaCare's Wilmington, Del., campus.
The Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center has opened at the Atlanta Falcons' Flowery Branch, Ga., training facility, Fox5 Atlanta reported Feb. 25.
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In the last month, Becker's has reported on three new spine and orthopedic institutes in Arizona, Connecticut and Florida:
Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth broke ground on what will be the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute's Florida headquarters.
The orthopedics program at Flagstaff-based Northern Arizona Healthcare has been designated as an Orthopedic and Spine Institute, two years after its inception, the Arizona Daily Sun reported Feb. 22.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Connecticut Orthopaedic Institute at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport will be held Feb. 24, four years after sister hospital MidState Medical Center in Meriden debuted the institute's first location.
Kennewick, Wash.-based Trios Health opened a new clinic focused on spine and interventional pain care.