Practice Management

Gray Wesley Barrow, MD, pleaded guilty for his role in a scheme to receive $336,000 in illegal kickback payments.

In 2016, payments for knee surgeries performed at ambulatory surgery centers were at least 21 percent lower than payments for hospital outpatient surgeries in 14 states, according to a FlashReport from the Workers Compensation Research Institute.

Sellersville, Pa.-based Grand View Health opened a new orthopedic physician office in Lansdale, Pa., Nov. 15.

Muncie-based Central Indiana Orthopedics started construction on the first building of its new medical campus MedTech Park in Fishers, Ind., according to Commercial Property Executive.

Jeffrey Cantor, MD, founder and medical director of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Cantor Spine Institute, is passionate about minimally invasive spine surgery and advancing motion-preserving techniques to improve patient care.

Privately held healthcare diagnostics company Statera Spine formed a subsidiary, Ortho Kinematics, which will focus on the commercialization of the Profile-ESP.

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger launched ProvenRecovery, a program designed to improve pain management and healing after surgery while also reducing opioid prescriptions, according to North Central PA.

This article is a portion of a book titled "Challenges, Risks and Opportunities in Today's Spine World" edited by Stephen Hochschuler, MD, Frank Phillips, MD, and Richard Fessler, MD. You can find links to the previous chapters at the end…

Registration is open for the American College of Perioperative Medicine's Interdisciplinary Conference on Orthopedic Value-Based Care. 

There were 63,632 American drug overdose deaths in 2016, and 66 percent involved an opioid, according to the CDC. More than 130 people die each day from opioid-related drug overdoses, according to HHS, and nearly 80 percent of heroin users report misusing prescription…