Orthopedic

The Memphis Grizzlies entered a multi-year partnership with Memphis Tenn.-based. Campbell Clinic as the NBA team’s official orthopedics and sports medicine provider. The partnership renews a relationship that ended in September 2023, when the Grizzlies inked a 10-year partnership with…

UnitedHealthcare will eliminate prior authorization requirements for certain spine and elbow surgery CPT codes across Medicaid managed care plans in 16 states and the District of Columbia, effective Oct. 1. The changes cover many of the same codes across affected…

Stryker signed a definitive agreement to acquire ZuriMED, a privately held company that develops technology for rotator cuff repair. The acquisition will add ZuriMED’s FiberLocker System to Stryker’s shoulder care portfolio, according to an Aug. 31 news release. The technology…

Orthopedic medtech company Enovis entered into a binding offer to acquire eCential Robotics, expanding its surgical technology portfolio to include robotic automation. The deal carries an upfront enterprise value of about $180 million, plus up to $41 million in contingent…

Orthopedic trauma surgeons are trained to fix what is broken. Pain is expected to improve as the fracture stabilizes, swelling subsides and tissues heal. For many patients, it does. For some, it does not. Weeks after surgery, pain can become…

Houston-based Fondren Orthopedic Group, relocated its Pearland, Texas, clinic to an expanded facility featuring the practice’s first ASC. The new facility offers comprehensive orthopedic subspecialties, on-site physical therapy and outpatient surgical options, according to a news release shared with Becker’s…

For decades, orthopedic surgeons interested in serious clinical research largely faced a familiar choice. They could build a career inside an academic medical center, where research infrastructure and incentives already existed. Or they could enter private practice, gaining more autonomy…

Gerald Steinberg, MD, an orthopedic surgeon who held leadership roles at Amherst-based University of Massachusetts and Cambridge (Mass.) Health Alliance, died Aug. 25 at 83. Dr. Steinberg began his orthopedic career at UMass Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., where he…

Robert Robertson, MD, a longtime orthopedic surgeon and founding member of Oklahoma Surgical Hospital in Tulsa, died Aug. 18 at 85. Dr. Robertson spent four years completing specialty training in orthopedic surgery at the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education…

Every dentist visit starts the same way: a cleaning, an X-ray, a look for small problems before they become big ones. No one waits until a tooth is unsalvageable to see a dentist for the first time. Similarly, S. Ali…