Practice Management

Here are four hospitals recently expanding spine programs and services:

Blue Cross Blue Shield awarded Flowood, Miss.-based the Surgery Center at Mississippi Sports Medicine an advanced designation, making it the only center in the Southeast U.S. with the honor.

Physician groups are worried about surviving the pandemic financially and many are running on just a few week's cash as they ramp back up for the second half of 2020, according to a report from McKinsey & Co.

Philadelphia-based Rothman Orthopaedic Institute will open an office in Paramus, N.J., on July 27.

Two physicians will join the staff at Flagstaff-based Northern Arizona Orthopaedics in July, Flagstaff Business News reports.

SpineCare Long Island will open its third location in Holbrook, N.Y., on Aug. 3, according to a July 17 announcement.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock opened a second Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine center in Lowell, according to a July 15 Arkansas Business report.

Arkansas' first proton therapy treatment center is being planned for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Radiation Oncology Center in Little Rock, according to a July 15 KATV report.

Phoenix-based The Core Institute is preparing to move into a new medical office in Gilbert, Ariz., which completed construction this month, AZ Big Media reports.

Lima-based Orthopaedic Institute of Ohio is expanding services at Mary Rutan Hospital Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in Bellefontaine, Ohio, according to a July 15 Bellefontaine Examiner report.