BlueCross & BlueShield of Rhode Island, South County Hospital and South County Orthopedics & Physical Therapy have entered into an agreement to provide patients with bundled payments for knee and hip replacement surgery, according to a Narragansett-South Kingstown Patch report.
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The health insurance exchange websites were officially opened on Oct. 1, but since then many have closed or been temporarily shut down as the government works to fix glitches in the HealthCare.gov website.
The American Medical Association announced it is offering free toolkits for electronic funds transfers and electronic remittance advice.
Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network has acquired the assets of Westfield Hospital in Allentown and intends on converting the facility into an orthopedic center with a focus on total joint replacements and spine surgery, according to a Lehigh Valley…
Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster, Md., announced the addition of Jessica Wertz, DO, to Carroll Health Group Orthopaedics, part of the hospital's multispecialty practice group.
At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 25, Robert Bray, Jr., MD, neurological spine surgeon, and Karen Reiter, COO of DISC Sports and Spine Center in Newport Beach and Beverly Hills, Calif., discussed high-acuity spine…
At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 26, Carolyn Neumann, CPC, senior manager of coding and coverage access for Specialty Healthcare Advisers, shared the 10 biggest reimbursement challenges facing ASCs that do minimally invasive spine…
Zimmer Spine launched its newest line of minimally invasive instruments for exposure, retraction, decompression and disc preparation with lumbar fusion and microdiscectomy procedures.
Smith & Nephew appointed Roberto Quarta as a non-executive director and chairman elect.
The North American Spine Society Executive Committee has penned a letter to the Washington Post in response to a story about the necessity of spinal fusions.