Orthopedic

The Bear Moon study, which is evaluating the Bear ACL implant against autograft bone-patellar tendon-bone ACL reconstruction, completed enrollment, according to a July 7 news release. The study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, will span six clinical centers…

Beaufort (S.C.) Memorial Hospital has added Cory Messerschmidt, MD, to its staff, according to a July 2 report from Bluffton Today. Dr. Messerschmidt is an orthopedic surgeon with expertise in sports medicine, joint preservation, joint replacement and robotic surgery.  Dr.…

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has appointed C. Lowry Barnes, MD, as interim chancellor of the university.  Dr. Barnes joined UAMS as a professor and chair of the orthopedic surgery department at the university in 2014, according to…

Columbus (Ind.) Regional Health is closing its outpatient orthopedics and sports medicine practice due to financial hardships. The organization’s executive leadership and board of trustees determined that CRH was no longer able to cost-effectively provide orthopedic and sports medicine services…

A racketeering lawsuit filed in the New York Eastern District Court in Brooklyn last year has been dismissed in its entirety.  The lawsuit named 47 defendants, including orthopedic surgeons with Hempstead, N.Y.-based Total Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and Westbury-based New…

ValleyOrtho, part of Valley View, has added the Bridge-Enhanced ACL Restoration procedure, according to a June 30 report from The Aspen Times.  Tomas Pevny, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine physician, at Valley View, is helping integrate the BEAR…

Ten orthopedic surgeons opened Orthopedic Specialists of Jacksonville (Fla.) earlier in June, according to a June 30 report from Jacksonville Daily Record. The practice has two locations in Jacksonville and is staffed by surgeons who left Jacksonville Orthopaedic Institute. In…

Here are 12 orthopedic surgeons who joined new health systems, clinics, hospitals and more, as reported by Becker’s during the second quarter of 2025:

Value-based care has been an ongoing hot topic in healthcare, and  more and more health systems are paying attention to the shift across the industry.  Becker’s spoke with one surgeon about how value-based care is evolving in orthopedics and how…

Private equity deals are in full swing in healthcare, and orthopedics is no exception. Between 2012 and 2021, orthopedic practices acquired by private equity saw a 7.1% increase in physician prices. Orthopedic private equity has a mean market share of…