Roger Widmann, MD, is the chief of pediatric orthopedic surgery service at Hospital for Special Surgery, a position he has held since 2004. He is also the director of pediatric orthopedic trauma at New York Hospital and a member of…
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Paul Kraemer, MD, is a partner at Indiana Spine Group and practices at Community Hospital, Riverview Hospital and Indiana University Hospitals. He serves as the spine surgery fellowship director at Indiana University Hospitals and spends time actively engaged in research…
The following are the latest issues that occurred between hospitals, health systems and payers within the past month, starting with the most recent.
Starting today, the federal government will enact cuts to non-essential functions, following Congress' failure to come to agreement over a continuing resolution to fund the government past Sept. 30.
Despite the government shutdown, the health insurance exchanges established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act opened for enrollment today, according to a CMS news release.
Here are six important points for spine surgeons on how the government shutdown could impact their practices.
Doctors Hospital of Sarasota (Fla.) purchased its first Renaissance system from Mazor Robotics.
Raleigh, N.C.-based Baxano Surgical has launched the iO-Tome disposable facetectomy instrument for surgeons to use accompanying an interbody spinal fusion.
MiMedx Group entered into a distribution agreement with Medtronic and SpinalGraft Technologies, a subsidiary of Medtronic.
In a February 2013 article in Golf Digest on golf commentator David Feherty, Feherty’s description speaks for itself: “David Feherty is intense, intelligent, irreverent, improvisational and inexhaustable. And he may just be the best interviewer in the game.” Feherty’s wit…