Practice Management

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.

Daniel J. Berry, MD, president of American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, recently released a statement regarding Congress' inability to fix Medicare's sustainable growth rate, according to an AAOS news release.

Joel B. Nilsson, MD, hand and upper extremity surgeon, recently joined The Orthopaedic and Spine Institute of San Antonio, according to a practice news release.

This article is written by Barbara Cataletto, MBA, CPC, Chief Executive Officer, Business Dynamics.

When asked about their primary concern for the ASC industry in 2012, Greg Horner, MD, managing partner of Smithfield Surgical Partners doesn’t miss a beat: "The hospital integration process," he says. "You are probably aware that free-standing medical groups are…

Here are 12 statistics about sports medicine physician compensation based on MGMA’s Physicians Compensation and Production Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data.

A new study presented at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand annual meeting discusses the changing patterns in childhood fractures, showing that most adolescent acute non-displaced fractures are healing with cast mobilization, according to an AAOS Now report.

Laser Spine Institute recently launched the Laser Spine Institute Physician Relations Department, which focuses on forming relationships with referring physicians and other medical professionals. The ultimate goal of the department is to educate physicians about the group and expand its…