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Practice Management

Spine surgery accounts for about half of the new ambulatory surgery centers designed by L3 Healthcare Design in Altamonte Springs, Fla. Lee Chester, L3's vice president, itemizes eight design specifics for spine ASCs.

More physician groups and ambulatory surgery centers across the country are adding outpatient spine surgery to increase patient volume and drive profits. However, there are several aspects of adding spine the group or ASC should consider before recruiting a new…

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When orthopedic surgeons and other physicians take on workers' compensation cases, they are routinely asked several questions that can be hard to answer and even off-putting, says John DiPaola, MD, an orthopedic surgeon in Tualatin, Ore. To be successful with…

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons recently named Daniel Berry, MD, chair of the orthopedic surgery department at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., as president for 2011. Dr. Berry succeeds John Callaghan, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at the University…

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