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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan launched a bundled payment pilot program in the state for total joint replacements.

Payam Moazzaz, MD, of Oceanside, Calif.-based New Era Spine, is on the forefront of robotic spine technology.

Here are eight things for spinal surgeons to know for March 22, 2018.

Here are 10 orthopedic surgeon leaders to know.

Earlier this month, Orthofix acquired Spinal Kinetics, an artificial disc company, for up to $105 million.

Both Stryker and Johnson & Johnson appeared on LinkedIn's "Top Companies 2018: Where the U.S. wants to work now" list.

A new study published in Spine questions whether surgeons are overestimating the association between obesity and perioperative adverse outcomes due to ICD coding classifications.

Manish Shah, MD, is pediatric neurosurgeon at Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center in Houston. Dr. Shah makes annual trips to Haiti to perform endoscopic surgery on children with hydrocephalus, according to The Princeton Alumni Weekly.

Multimodal analgesia is increasingly becoming the standard of care for total joint arthroplasty. A study in Anesthesiology found nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors were the most effective modalities.

Among orthopedists, defensive imaging is both common and costly, according to a prospective practice audit in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.