Practice Management

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.

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…