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The health insurance landscape will change dramatically over the next few months, as enrollment in health insurance exchanges begins Oct. 1 and coverage on Jan. 1, 2014. While the exact aftermath is uncertain, many are making predictions based on reports…

Hansen Yuan, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon and professor emeritus of the department of orthopedic and neurological surgery at the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center.

Here are seven statistics on the amount of time each week that orthopedic surgeons spend seeing patients in the hospital setting, according to the Medscape Orthopedist Compensation Report: 2013.  

Lawrence Lenke, MD, Chief of Spinal Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Jerome J. Gilden Distinguished Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Professor of Neurological Surgery, discusses the biggest challenges and opportunities in spine surgery today…

Smith & Nephew has agreed to drop the lawsuit against Central Texas Orthopedic Products, a distributor for rival Biomet, according to a Mass Device report.

The FDA approved Medtronic's SureScan spinal cord stimulator in March, and the device was recently implanted in the first patient in the U.S., according to American News Report.

Darryl Kan, MD, and Gary Blum, MD, partners of Orthopedic Associates, intend to open the first urgent care center dedicated to orthopedics in Honolulu, according to a Pacific Business News report.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have redesigned the Physician Compare Website, according to a report from AAOS Now.

In an article for Health Affairs Blog, Brian Klepper and Paul Fischer argue that Congress should pass the Accuracy in Medicare Physician Payment Act.

A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that life expectancy in the United States has increased to 78.2 years, but the diseases with the largest number of years lived with a disability included back pain, neck…