Here are 10 current topics on orthopedic and spine-driven ASCs.
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Alan Beyer, MD, of Orthopedic Surgery Center of Orange County in Newport Beach, Calif., discusses four ways the surgery center has expanded orthopedic practice at the surgery center.
According to Amy Mowles, president and CEO of Mowles Medical Management, ASCs can improve their contracts with payors by simply doing adequate research about costs and regulations beforehand. Your ASC may be able to ask for higher fees if a…
Craig Levitz, MD, partner at Orlin & Cohen Orthopedic Group in Rockville Centre, N.Y., currently spreads his expertise on knee, shoulder and elbow disorders to future physicians around the world. He is lead faculty for Smith & Nephew's minimally invasive…
Computer navigation is available for orthopedic physicians performing knee surgery. The equipment is designed aid the physicians with incision placement and depth, implant placement and bone resections based on the patient's individual anatomy.
Question from orthopedic surgeon: Do you see or sense a movement by government or big (medical) business to legislate or eliminate the independent medical practitioner/business? This was asked by one of our orthopedic physicians. He thought you might know.
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. By AMA standards, an epidurogram is more than visualizing the contrast flow in the spine during and/or after an injection;…
Salt Lake City, Utah-based Amedica Corporation has received patents for its total disc replacement technology that features silicon nitride in the construction of the complete implant, according to a news release.
A study of workers' compensation for spinal surgery in California found that the injured worker cases had the highest average number of implant procedures, according to the California Workers' Compensation Institute.
San Jose, Calif-based SI-BONE announced that it is initiating training for its iFuse Implant System and is presenting the iFuse at Eurospine in Vienna, Austria this week, according to a news release.