The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and recent Relative Value Scale Update Committee recommendations "significantly" overestimate hip and knee replacement operating times, according to a 2019 study published in HealthAffairs.
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Orthopedic surgeon Robert Erdin III, MD, joined Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital in Weston, W.Va., according to WVNews.
The Arthroscopy Association of North America named orthopedic surgeon Steven Wertheim, MD, of Atlanta-based Resurgens Orthopaedics a Distinguished Arthroscopy Leader, reports Cobb Business Journal.
James P. Bradley, MD, will be the fourth alumnus of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic Sports Medicine Fellowship Program to become president of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.
Access Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics locations in Exeter, N.H., and Dover, N.H., were reaccredited by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission in MRI.
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Orthopedic surgeons report an average annual salary of $536,000, according to Merritt Hawkins 2019 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives report.
Andrew Pepper, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Gulf Breeze, Fla.-based Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, examined the past, present and future of total joint replacements in the Andrews Institutes' newly created video series.
Here are three orthopedic surgeons making the news.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons collaborated with Health eCareers to create an enhanced career center for orthopedic surgeons.
CMS' penalties program didn't significantly cut down on readmissions after it was expanded to include surgical hip and knee replacements in 2013, according to a Health Affairs report.