Practice Management

San Angelo, Texas-based Shannon Health announced that Stacy Beaty, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Shannon Clinic in San Angelo, has been designated a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.  

Wareham (Mass.) Orthopedic Associates has joined Southcoast Physicians Group, a part of the New Bedford, Mass.-based Southcoast Health System, according to The Wareham Courier.

Here are seven statistics on how orthopedists plan to handle their worst payors, according to Medscape's Orthopedist Compensation Report: 2013.

Glendale (Calif.) Adventist Medical Center announced that it has been named a Blue Distinction Center+ for Spine Surgery and a Blue Distinction Center for Knee and Hip Replacement by Blue Shield of California, an independent member of the Blue Cross…

Downers Grove, Ill.-based M&M Orthopaedics announced that it has reached an agreement to be acquired by Downers Grove, Ill.-based DuPage Medical Group.

New York-based Retrophin, a pharmaceutical company, has named Horacio Plotkin, MD, its chief medical officer, effective May 13, according to a Fort Mills Times report.

Joseph A. Bosco III, MD, was elected to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons board of directors at its 2013 Annual Meeting in Chicago, March 19-23, according to an AAOS News Now report.  

Orthopedic surgeon Jan-Eric Esway, MD, recently began operating in the new Boulders Ambulatory Surgery Center in North Chesterfield, Va.

International Osteoporosis Foundation announced that Harry Genant, MD, professor emeritus of the University of California San Francisco, has been named the winner of its inaugural Olof Johnell Science Award.

Oneida (N.Y.) Healthcare has announced the addition of two surgeons to Oneida Orthopedic Specialists — David Patalino, MD, and Jonathan Wigderson, DO.