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Practice Management

Harrison Medical Center in Silverdale, Wash., is on schedule to build its new orthopedic hospital for $315 per square foot, well below the cost of other inpatient facilities in the region, according to a Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce report.

Physician signing bonuses, once a treat, are almost a foregone conclusion now as roughly 80 percent of physician recruiting assignments Merritt Hawkins conducted in 2011 and 2012 involved signing bonuses.

American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons Fellow, Louis McIntyre, MD, recently testified before the House Small Business Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulations on the cause and impact of the decline in private practices.  

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Coastal Orthopedics in Bradenton, Fla., will add several more physicians and staff members to its staff by the end of the year, according to a Gulf Coast Business Review report.

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