The pandemic is accelerating outpatient orthopedics and total joint replacements, and payers have taken notice.
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To protect patients and staff amid the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers across specialties expanded access to telehealth.
Mary I. O'Connor, MD, is the first director of the Center for Musculoskeletal Care at Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health and a professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation at Yale School of Medicine.
Following is a list of three executives who have been honored for their work in orthopedics this year:
A study led by Andrew Wickline, MD, of New Hartford, N.Y.-based Genesee Orthopedics recently explored whether an expanded 90-day multimodal protocol after total hip replacement could significantly reduce or lead to opioid-free recovery, with minimal physical therapy.
Francine Norman, BSN, RN, was promoted to serve as practice administrator of Illinois Pain Institute and Barrington (Ill.) Pain and Spine Institute.
Two spine surgeons have been making waves on the entrepreneurial front in the past month.
Orthopedic surgeon Richard Goding, MD, has joined the surgical team at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll, Iowa, according to the Carroll Times Herald.
The sports medicine field was one of the most affected specialties during the pandemic, primarily due to the cessation of elective surgeries earlier in the year and the widespread suspension of many sports at varying levels.
Spinal implant manufacturer Wenzel Spine on Aug. 27 acquired Statera Spine, a spinal imaging analytics company.