Orthopaedic and Spine Specialists, a York, Penn.-based private practice, will open its $22 million hospital within the next few weeks, according to a report from The York Dispatch.
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ProMedica Health System is expanding its Wildwood Campus in Toledo, Ohio, to include a new orthopedic center, according to a local ABC report.
Jeff Leland, managing director of Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners, explains six things to know about how spine surgeons might fit into accountable care organizations.
Forty-three percent of patients scheduled for orthopedic surgery have insufficient levels of vitamin D, according to an article published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
Mike Kintner, service contracts manager at TriMedx, shares five strategies ASCs should adopt to achieve significant, sustainable equipment savings.
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In the current economy, patients are finding it more and more difficult to pay their bills — so much so that they often put off non-elective procedures because their high-deductible insurance plans require a hefty financial contribution. Three ASC collections…
Patient Prompt, a company developing customized automated appointment reminder systems, conducted a six-year study examining more than one million internal reminders on the most effective practice protocol for making appointment reminder calls to patients. Here Claude Waknine, director of business…
Healthcare reform, with its many current and future changes to Medicare payment methodologies and to the “Stark” self-referral and fraud and abuse laws, is creating stricter regulations and new obligations for all physicians, including orthopedists. Wayne J. Miller, Esq., a…
OrthoCarolina, an orthopedic practice based in Charlotte, N.C., merged with Scotland Orthopedics based in Laurinburg, N.C., to become OrthoCarolina Scotland, according to a Charlotte Business Journal report.
The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati acquired a Fairfax, Ohio-based orthopedic practice from Daniel Funk, MD, according to a hospital news release.