Practice Management

Orthopedic practices need buy-in from the physicians, medical staff and other team members to run a successful business. Here are five tips for promoting buy-in from members at all levels of the orthopedic practice.

Here are four tips for negotiating outpatient spine contracts with payors.

Here are five ways to enhance sports medicine practices.

Here are statistics on patients visiting physicians for knee, shoulder, hip and back pain in 2006 from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and Bureau of Labor statistics, the most recent data posted on the American Academy of Orthopaedic…

Here are four ways to maximize space at orthopedic and spine practices.

Here are four tips for successfully managing your orthopedic practice's revenue cycle.

Surgeons at Orthopedic & Sports Institute of the Fox Valley in Appleton, Wis., needed to take at least five steps before they could move total joint replacements from the hospital to its ambulatory surgery center, which is co-owned by seven…

If you want to become part of the overall continuum of care in your community, forming a partnership or aligning with a hospital may be in your future, if it hasn't occurred already. Here, orthopedic and spine surgeons and industry…

For a successful orthopedic surgery center, promote increased communication between orthopedic surgeons and:

Orthopedic practices around the country are looking for ways to increase efficiency and decrease costs, and implementing a speech-enabled electronic health record system could help in this crusade. Michael Rauh, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at UB Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine…