At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Jeff Blankinship will give a presentation titled "Consumerism and Price Transparency."
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Dr. Jeffrey Wang, MD, orthopedic surgeon and vice chairman of the UCLA Orthopedic Hospital, will co-chair the North American Spine Society's new Summer Spine Meeting.
The Spine and Sports Health Center announced yesterday that it plans to open a new facility in Manhattan.
Patient satisfaction is important for any physician group, and more spine groups are beginning to tailor their practices around that patient experience.
In a study published in the Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, researchers found that 67 percent of orthopedic surgeons underestimate the cot of implants while 33 percent overestimate the cost.
More physicians are choosing to receive MBAs to learn more about running their practice and the challenges of healthcare reform, according to a Marketplace article.
Bipartisan legislation to make Medicare claims data open to the general public, dubbed the Medicare Data Access for Transparency and Accountability Act, was introduced to the U.S. Senate this week.
The healthcare reform law's Multi-State Plan Program, which was intended to allow customers and businesses to purchase health plans on the exchanges that extended beyond state lines, isn't showing promising signs of promoting competition among such plans, according to a…
On June 20, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons presidents sent a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal advocating for the repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board.
Two neurosurgeons were elected to the board of trustees for the American Medical Society.