Five individuals who practiced at and operated a New York pain facility pleaded guilty in a six-year, $80 million healthcare fraud scheme, according to the Times Herald-Record.
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Stryker expanded the roles of two of its employees after Stuart Simpson, president of joint replacement, left the company.
Daniel Penello, MD, of Alexander Orthopaedic Associates in St. Petersburg, Fla., is a fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon who specializes in hand and upper extremity surgery.
Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center installed Medtronic's Mazor X System for complex spinal procedures, reports HIT Infrastructure.
Minimally invasive spine surgeon James St. Louis, DO, and founder of now defunct Laser Spine Institute in Tampa, Fla., sold his Belair estate for $7.9 million, reports Tampa Bay Business Journal.
Fellowship-trained spine surgeon Brandon Cook, MD, joined Orthopaedic Associates in Fort Walton Beach, Fla.
Gregory Mallo, MD, and Marco Palmieri, DO, joined Merrick, N.Y.-based Orlin & Cohen orthopedic Group.
OrthoGeorgia orthopedic spine surgeon Ryan Schnetzer, MD, made the University of Georgia's 40 Under 40 Alumni list, The Telegraph reports.
Roger Hartl, MD, is a professor of neurological surgery and director of spine surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. He is also director of the Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Comprehensive Spine Care.
Todd Lanman, MD, founder of Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Lanman Spinal Neurosurgery, performed a three-level artificial cervical disc replacement procedure with Orthofix's M6-C device, according to Virtual Strategy Magazine.