Practice Management

Amazing Charts, a West Warwick, R.I.-based developer of EHRs and practice management systems, offered five health IT predictions for 2017.

David Pillsbury left his role as Tampa-based Laser Spine Institute's CEO on Nov. 30, 2016, the Tampa Bay Business Journal reported.

Business Journal named Anthony Gioia a 2016 CFO of the Year, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal. Business Journal has honored high-performing financial executives for the past decade.

A higher percentage of physicians feel it's acceptable to hide a clinical mistake today than they did even two years ago, according to a Medscape report.

Medscape surveyed more than 7,500 physicians from more than 25 specialties on a range of ethical situations, with findings revealed in the "Medscape Ethics Report 2016: Money, Romance, and Patients."

Phoenix-based OrthoArizona added a North Phoenix and Chandler office to its portfolio.

Orthopedic surgeon Nikhil Verma, MD, and his colleagues at Chicago's Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush are offering international patients a fixed price for knee and shoulder surgery.

UnitedHealth Group will participate in bundled payments for spine surgeries as well as hip and knee replacements in 2017, according to Forbes.

Leawood, Kan.-based Kansas City Orthopedic Institute recently opened Ortho Urgent Care, an urgent care orthopedic clinic, Fox4 reports.

As healthcare trends toward value-based reimbursement, patients are increasingly paying for their care and many Americans are facing double-digit premium hikes.