Practice Management

Over the last two years, Palos Surgicenter in Palos Heights, Ill., has helped his center almost triple orthopedic case volume with the help of Administrator Thomas Holecek. He discusses seven points on significantly increasing orthopedic case volume in surgery centers.

David Lau, managing partner of Medical Forefronts Financial Services, a management company that specializes in surgery billing for facilities featuring orthopedic and pain management physicians and practices, discusses four ways orthopedic practices can ensure success with their billing and coding…

  "Spine surgery is very doable in a surgery center with the right kind of surgery and the right kind of patient," says Joan F. O'Shea, MD, neurosurgeon and orthopedic spine surgeon at the Spine Institute of Southern New Jersey…

Here are five mistakes orthopedic practices often make when dealing with their revenue cycle.

The Food and Drug Administration issued 34 orthopedic- and spine-related 510(k) clearances in April, according to an FDA report.

Here are four factors that impact the success of orthopedic surgery centers.

Here are five points about orthopedic surgeon compensation based on statistics from the Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2011.

Kenneth Pettine, MD, a fellowship-trained spine surgeon and co-owner of the Loveland (Colo.) Surgery Center, lists five ways cash payments for spine surgery can help the patient and the ASC.

Highlands Neurosurgery in Bristol, Tenn., was an unusually early adopter of electronic health records. The practice, which has two neurosurgeons and two physiatrists, installed an EHR system in the 1990s, when it was a beta site for an early system.…

Here are four benchmarks that can impact the productivity and quality of care at orthopedic practices.