As healthcare switches from a fee-for-service model to global payments, surgeons are seeing less compensation per episode of care. As a result, more surgeons are signing employment contracts with hospitals, and health systems are acquiring physician practices.
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A Catholic health organizations purchased Mazor's Renaissance system for robotic guidance during spine surgery.
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Jeffrey Arle, MD, PhD, is the associate chief of neurosurgery at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is also a visiting associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He is a member of North…
A new article published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine examine complications for patients undergoing anterior lumbar interbody fusion with recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2.
Medtronic raised $17 billion in a bond sale completed yesterday, making it the largest corporate-debt sale in 2014, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Takoma Park, Md.-based US Medical Innovations signed a distribution agreement with CrossLink Surgical for the Canady Hybrid Plasma Scalpel.
Aurora Spine reported third quarter financial results, detailing several significant achievements.
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Neurosurgeon Aria Sabit, MD, is being detained for allegedly committing billing fraud against commercial and government payers, according to a Wall Street Journal report.