The United States Sports Academy has granted Cindy Chang, MD, of the University Health Services Tang Center at University of California Berkley, the Dr. Ernst Jokl Sports Medicine Award, according to a report by The Daily Californian.
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Arthur Ting, MD, board-certified orthopedic surgeon, has performed knee surgery on the San Jose Sharks left wing Raffi Torres, according to a SFGate report.
James Andrews, MD, the co-founder of the Andrews Institute in Gulf Breeze, Fla., recently performed a second elbow surgery on the Atlanta Braves right-handed pitcher Brandon Beachy, according to an ajc.com report.
14 Spine Surgeons Receive Leadership Awards Becker’s Spine Review has named the recipients of the Annual Spine Leadership Award 2013. Click to continue » Driving Value in Spine Care: Outpatient Spine Surgery Over the past 20 years, an increasing…
At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Timothy Merchant will give a presentation titled "Using Reprocessing to Reduce Costs."
Pulse Systems, a Wichita, Kan.-based provider of electronic health records and revenue cycle software, recently announced Georgia Bone and Joint Surgeons selected its EHR and practice management software to replace a system previously used by the orthopedic practice.
For hospitals and health systems, attracting patients to receive care in their network and keeping them in-network has always been important. However, the concept of keeping patients in-network has become even more important for organizations that take on risk for…
Although the District of Columbia health insurance exchange will open for business Oct. 1, it won't deploy the function that calculates tax credits and determines Medicaid eligibility because of the high error rate experienced during systems testing.
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David P. Roye, Jr., MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon practicing with Columbia Orthopaedics, which is a part of New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York. He is the St. Giles Professor of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery at Columbia…