Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Hospitals recorded profit of $56.1 million in the first quarter of 2012, a 22 percent upsurge from the $46.1 million profit recorded in the first quarter of 2011, and outpatient surgery was a large contributor to the…
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Consultants have advised some large employers they can save money by dropping health insurance in 2014 and sending employees to buy insurance through health insurance exchanges, according to a report by congressional Republicans reported in FOX Business.
Tapan K. Daftari, MD, is a spine surgeon at Resurgens Orthopaedics in Atlanta with a special interest in reconstructive spine surgery and cervical and lumbar artificial disc replacement. He also performs minimally invasive procedures for patients. He practices at the…
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Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, MD, chief of the scoliosis service at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City and founder and president of the Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine, has opened a 50-bed orthopedic and rehabilitation hospital in Ghana, Africa.
Robert S. Bray, Jr., MD, neurosurgeon and CEO of DISC Sports & Spine Center in Marina del Rey, Calif., believes that outpatient surgery centers and spine specialty hospitals are the future of elective spine surgery. He moved out of his…
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The Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush Minimally Invasive Spine Institute in Chicago recently opened, with former basketball star and television sports caster Bill Walton attending as special guest.