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.
Practice Management
Mike Kintner, service contracts manager at TriMedx, shares five strategies ASCs should adopt to achieve significant, sustainable equipment savings.
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…
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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.
The three most important specialties to ASCs are orthopedics, ophthalmology and gastroenterology, based on case volume and revenue statistics. Many of these specialties can still excel in group practice due in part to significant control over the generation of their…
Here are 29 statistics about orthopedics, based on data from VMG Health Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010, SDI 2008 Outpatient Surgery Center Market Report and MGMA 2010 Physician Compensation and Production Survey.
Surgical solutions using platelet rich plasma have recently begun making headway in orthopedic surgery, and physicians should have a good understanding of the how the technique works before using it, according to reports published in AAOS Now.