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Steven Ballinger, MD, recently joined Samaritan Mid-Valley Orthopedics in Albany, Ore. He previously held private solo practices in Arcata, Calif., and Nacogdoches, Texas, where he used his own experience as an elite athlete to inform his work on sports injuries.

The FDA issued 39 orthopedic- and spine-related 510(k) clearances in June, according to an FDA report.

Thomas Graham, MD, has been named Cleveland Clinic Innovations chairman, according to a Medcity News report.

John Dietz, MD, chairman of Indiana Orthopaedic Hospital in Indianapolis, discusses four successful cost-reduction strategies.

The FDA issued 30 orthopedic- and spine-related 510(k) clearances in May, according to a report by the FDA.

Michael Pryce, MD, an orthopedic surgeon in Ohio, is running for the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by the retirement of Senator George Voinovich.

R. Michael Gross, MD, a shoulder specialist at GIKK Ortho Specialists in Omaha, Neb., describes two advances in shoulder surgery he finds most exciting.

During his decade at the Curtis National Hand Center at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Md., Thomas Graham, MD, estimates he helped around 1,700 professional athletes. He has been sought out by NBA star Shaquille O'Neal, golfer Anthony Kim and…

One of the most accurate measurement tools to assess the performance and effectiveness of your billing and collections procedures is a measure called net collection percent. The net collection percentage rate tells you how much money that should have been…

Anesthesia type can play a role in likelihood for infections during total hip and knee replacements, according to a study published in Anesthesiology titled "Anesthetic Management and Surgical Site Infections in Total Hip or Knee Replacement: A Population-based Study."