Practice Management

This article was written by John A. Mills, JD, an associate with Fenton Nelson's litigation and compliance groups, in response to a recent lawsuit filed by Aetna against Bay Area Surgical Management LLC, alleging the surgery centers illegally induced its…

Greg Bellisari, MD, and Vivek Sahai, MD, of Ohio Orthopedic Center of Excellence, recently joined OhioHealth's Riverside Methodist Hospital, according to a hospital news release.

This article briefly discusses 10 emerging healthcare issues for 2012, focusing principally on hospital and physician issues.

The American Medical Association's Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee — the group that makes influential decisions in how physicians are paid by Medicare — has added two spots to represent primary care physicians more, according to an American…

Here are 5 keys to success with spine surgery in an outpatient surgery center.

Andrea Woodell is managed care manager for Regent Surgical Health.   There are several steps necessary to ensure a profitable transition from an independent ambulatory surgery center to a partnership with a hospital:

Here are 10 tips for effective online orthopedic practice marketing through the practice website and social media.

A new study shows 96 percent of orthopedic surgeons practice defensive medicine with estimated annual costs of more than $2 billion, according to an American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons news release.

Signing bonuses are on the rise, as 88 percent of placed physicians received a signing bonus in 2011, according to a report from The Medicus Firm.

Here are 11 statistics about where orthopedic surgeons are practicing based on the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' 2010 Orthopaedic Surgeon Census. More than half of respondents reported being in a private practice setting while only 17 percent were employed…