Practice Management

After several weeks of partisan debate between the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, both chambers finally approved a two-month extension of payroll tax breaks and the Medicare sustainable growth rate, according to a Politico report.

Here are five things your group should know before expanding your practice with a satellite location or merger with another local group.

The Hand and Wrist Institute in Los Angeles now provides endoscopic carpal tunnel release surgery, according to a practice news release.

Here are 15 benchmarking statistics about staff in ambulatory surgery centers, broken down by average (statistical mean) salary and wages, hours per case and number of full-time employees, from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011. These figures come from the…

Seventy percent of physicians plan to work longer until retirement due to the economic downturn and depleted personal savings, according to the Jackson & Coker Retirement Survey.

For many within healthcare, the sustainable growth rate is like a mosquito on a hot, muggy summer day. It's clearly flying around, waiting to suck the blood of anyone who fails to pay attention, and the longer you wait to…

Patient-specific partial knee replacements can provide the same orthopedic benefits as traditional replacements while improving patient comfort and saving surgery centers money and time, according to Jong Lee, senior vice president of marketing and business strategy for ConforMIS.

Here are 10 tips from orthopedic group leaders that will help maintain a strong practice in 2012.

This article was written by Blair Rhode, MD, Sports Medicine Orthopedic Surgeon and owner, RoG Sports Medicine"Doctors have less and less authority today, it continues to be taken away... yet they have more and more responsibility."— Lanny Johnson, MD

Walter Virkus, MD, an orthopedic surgeon with Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, recently expanded his practice into the western suburbs of Chicago, according to a MOR news release.