Several factors have come together in the past few months to create a perfect storm of disincentives to spine surgeon inventors.
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Physicians cannot ignore costs when it comes to patient treatments, and they can start by making the cost of care a less taboo subject to broach, according to a KevinMD.com report.
A recent study in The American Journal of Managed Care found more than half of physicians write their prescriptions electronically, eight times as many who wrote e-prescriptions as of 2008.
Biomet reported its net income at $31.1 million for the first quarter of 2014, despite spine sales coming in 6.6 percent lower than the same period last year.
The University of Tennessee Athletics Department has hired Ashley Bonck Wilson as an associate director of sports medicine.
IndyCar driver Dario Franchitti has undergone surgery to temporarily stabilize a broken right ankle at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston.
Michael Hisey, MD, is the medical director for Texas Back Institute in Plano. He also serves as vice chairman of the department of surgery at Denton Regional Medical Center and chairman of the board of managers at Presbyterian Hospital of…
An article published in AAOS Now discusses how physician compensation is evolving in private practices.
An article published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined the impact of surgical complications on hospital finances.
The U.S. FDA recently approved Binder Biomedical's LOGIC standalone intervertebral body fusion device for treatment of degenerative disc disease.