Orthopedic

For decades, rotator cuff surgery has been treated as a mechanical problem. A tendon tears. A surgeon brings it back to bone. Anchors and sutures hold it in place. The operation succeeds if the repair is strong enough to heal.…

For two decades, the financial risk in Medicare’s value-based experiments landed on institutions. Hospitals took on the bundles. Accountable care organizations absorbed the shared savings and the shared losses. The individual surgeon mostly kept billing fee-for-service and let the layer…

Boston orthopedic surgeon Sarav Shah, MD, is among the first physicians in the U.S. to use Advita Ortho’s Equinoxe scapula reconstruction system. The system is designed to treat fractures of the acromion and scapular spine, shoulder blade injuries that can…

St. Cloud, Minn.-based CentraCare will open a $194 million expansion at its Plaza campus June 29, adding more than 225,000 square feet of clinical space, according to a June 9 West Central Tribune report. The expansion adds space for orthopedics,…

Orthopedic surgery often celebrates the operation. Gabriella Ode, MD, believes the operation is rarely what determines whether a patient’s overall care ultimately succeeds. As an orthopedic sports medicine and shoulder surgeon at New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery and…

Medical device company Moximed reported five-year data showing sustained pain relief, functional improvement and durability for its Misha knee system in patients with medial knee osteoarthritis. The findings, published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, followed 81 patients…

Robin West, MD, has spent her career rebuilding torn anterior cruciate ligaments. She believes the biggest opportunity in sports medicine is making that surgery less necessary. As chief of Inova Sports Medicine at Fairfax, Va.-based Inova Health System, Dr. West…

CHI Health broke ground June 24 on the Lakeside Hills orthopedic center in Omaha, Neb., according to a report from ABC affiliate KETV. The facility is designed to provide coordinated orthopedic care from diagnosis through recovery and serve as a…

For years, many orthopedic surgeons viewed bundled payments as a concession. Accept a fixed price. Take on more risk. Hope that the math works. Brian Curtin, MD, now believes many surgeons understood the model backward. “I make more now on…

Researchers at the University of Texas San Antonio are developing a nanoparticle-based therapy designed to address irreversible muscle degeneration that often follows rotator cuff tears.  The project received a $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and is…