Several medical and orthopedic device company stocks recovered after suffering significant losses at the end of last week, perhaps due to a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services announcement that it would conduct checks before authorizing select treatment in the…
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Mininder Kocher, MD, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Boston Children's Hospital, recently discussed the trend of young athletes experiencing ACL tears in an ABC News report.
Vladimir Dadashev, MD, and Sachin N. Shah, MD, neurosurgeons with a professional interest in spine surgery, recently joined Neurological Surgery in Rockville Centre, N.Y., according to a practice news release.
An article recently published in Health Affairs examines the literature on percutaneous vertebroplasty and questions whether payors have appropriately adapted to new findings in the comparative effectiveness research to provide better patient outcomes at a lower cost.
A new report from Millennium Research Group suggests that orthopedic surgeons are content with orthopedic device companies and their products, while other specialists, such as cardiologists, express more discontent, according to a MRG news release.
Here are 16 statistics on orthopedic surgeon compensation by the total medical revenue accrued annually by the surgeons' practice, based on the Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data. The total medical revenue includes fee-for-service collections,…
Spine Pain Management, a medical management and finance company, opened its sixth regional diagnostic center in Sarasota, Fla., according to a news release in the Sacramento Bee.
Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, affiliations, co-management agreements, joint ventures, service line agreements, leasing arrangements and strategic partnerships. Sometimes it seems as though the world of healthcare has turned into a Baskin Robbins, with 31 flavors of hospital transactions out in various…
Ambulatory surgery centers will be included in audits as part of a HIPAA audit program initiated by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Office for Civil Rights, according to a report in the ASC Association's ASCA Government Affairs…
Spine surgeons Denis S. Drummond, MD, and Ronald L. DeWald, MD, are the Scoliosis Research Society's 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award winners, according to an AAOS Now report.