Surgeons are holding MSO and health system partners to a different standard today than in the past, putting a new premium on transparency and flexibility. While organizations have the playbook down in the courtship phase, many fall short in their…
Orthopedic
Osteoporosis has a timing problem. The disease can progress quietly for years, without pain or an obvious warning that sends someone to a physician. Then a patient falls, twists the wrong way or sustains a fracture that seems disproportionate to…
Patient education may be one of the most underused tools for improving population health outcomes, according to Rita Roy, MD, executive director of the National Spine Health Foundation. “There are knowledge gaps on the patient education side and on the…
Two Florida men have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a $34.8 million healthcare fraud conspiracy involving medically unnecessary orthotic braces billed to Medicare. Kenneth Kessler III, of Miami, was sentenced to 33 months in prison. Michael Gomez,…
Robert “Bob” Draper Jr., MD, one of Baltimore’s first Black orthopedic surgeons and a former chief resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital, died Aug. 29 after a blood clot traveled to his heart. He was 79. Dr. Draper earned his medical…
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CMS’ 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and ASC Payment System Final Rule marked the largest single-year expansion of outpatient-eligible surgery since at least 2018, surpassing, in one year, the 59 procedures Becker’s tracked as added to the ASC-covered list…
Sidney (Mont.) Health Center partnered with Synergy Health Partners to expand its orthopedic services and will add two orthopedic surgeons this fall. Michael Calfee, MD, will begin seeing patients in October and James Ingram, MD, will begin seeing patients in…
Long Beach, Calif.-based Golden State Orthopedics & Spine provided notice of a data security incident. On July 2, Golden State Orthopedics & Spine detected unusual activity within its network and engaged third-party forensic experts to investigate, according to an Aug.…
Carestream Healthcare International introduced the latest version of its DRX-LC Detector, which uses AI to support long-length imaging. The detector uses single-shot long-length imaging to capture long-bone and spine exams in one exposure, according to a Sept. 3 news release…
OrthoCarolina physician Edward C. Brown III was elected as a general member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons in August. Brown is in his eighth year in practice at OrthoCarolina, according to a Sept. 1 press release. American Shoulder…