Orthopedic

Physician independence in orthopedics isn’t dying, but it is being redefined. For surgeons, it no longer means a solo practice and a handful of insurance contracts. It means owning the facility, controlling the decisions and building the scale to survive.…

U.S. Orthopaedic Partners, an integrated orthopedic care platform, and Southern Orthopaedic Surgeons, a multilocation orthopedic group, are planning to build an ASC in Montgomery, Ala.  The ASC will include four operating rooms, with space for two additional ORs, two specialized…

Bon Secours Mercy Health’s planned $5.7 billion acquisition of Surgery Partners would put a national outpatient surgery operator with a growing orthopedic business under hospital system ownership. Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health agreed Oct. 26 to take Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery…

Healthgrades published its “Specialty Excellence 2027 Awards,” recognizing hospitals for their patient outcomes across 19 specialties, including outpatient orthopedic surgery.  Five hospitals in New Jersey were included in the list, the most of any state. California, Pennsylvania and Texas all…

For spine and orthopedic surgeons, the full consequences of a noncompete agreement can extend well beyond earned salary. Restrictive covenants, compensation formulas and partnership terms can influence where physicians practice, how they are paid and how much control they retain…

A federal judge in Massachusetts allowed parts of a whistleblower lawsuit against medical devicemaker Zimmer Biomet to proceed, finding sufficient evidence for a jury to consider whether its commission payments to independent contractor sales representatives violated federal anti-kickback law. The…

A Texas physician and a retired U.S. Postal Service employee have been charged in an alleged scheme to bill a federal workers’ compensation program about $19 million for orthopedic equipment and services that patients didn’t need or never received. A…

Jason Patterson, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Phoenix-based OrthoArizona, became the first surgeon worldwide to perform total ankle replacement procedures using Stryker’s Prophecy Incompass patient-specific instrumentation.  Dr. Patterson completed three procedures in July 2026 using the technology, which creates customized,…

Fredericksburg, Va.-based Mary Washington Healthcare opened Mary Washington Ortho Urgent Care in the city, a walk-in clinic for orthopedic injuries and musculoskeletal conditions. The clinic requires no appointment and is staffed by orthopedic-trained providers, according to an Oct. 19 news…

For Arianna Gianakos, DO, the future of foot and ankle surgery may be defined less by what surgeons can do than by what they no longer need to do. Among these are smaller incisions, less disruption to healthy tissue and…