Practice Management

U.S. Orthopaedic Partners acquired Jackson Anesthesia Pain Centers and Oxford Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, the platform announced March 2.

Orlando-based UCF Lake Nona Medical Center in Orlando, a $175 million facility with inpatient and outpatient spine and orthopedic surgery, opened March 1.

Grafton, N.D.-based Unity Medical Center opened a $20 million expansion that bolstered orthopedics, among other specialty services, the Grand Forks Herald reports.

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.

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.

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.