As Americans continue to place a high emphasis on fitness and athletics, sports medicine centers have developed around the need for orthopedics and rehabilitation specialized for active patients and serious athletes. Robert A. Stanton, MD, is an orthopedic physician with…
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A paper published in the Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research journal says Kaiser Permanente's Total Joint Replacement Registry can enhance patient safety, quality of care, cost-effectiveness and research, according to a Kaiser Permanente news release.
Missouri's St. John's Health System has received state approval on plans to construct a $104 million orthopedic hospital on the northwest edge of Ozark, according to a News-Leader report.
As the new medical director of The Spine Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., Todd C. Bonvallet, MD, will review and adjust the quality, availability, safety and appropriateness of the program's medical services. With a growing national emphasis on quality measures and…
Robert P. Mack, MD, a physician with Orthopaedic Associates of Aspen in Glenwood Springs, Colo., was inducted to the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's hall of fame during the AOSSM annual meeting in Providence, R.I., according to an AOSSM…
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Sports medicine is a unique subspecialty of orthopedics focused on supporting patients whose difficulties arise from all levels of athletic activity. The physicians at Hospital for Special Surgery's Women's Sports Medicine Center in New York City take this specialization a…
When Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf in Pensacola, Fla., teamed up with Tallahassee (Fla.) Orthopedic Clinic to launch orthopedic services, Garrison Rolle, MD, was the first to perform orthopedic surgery at the new hospital on July 9. He performed…
The Spine Center at the Center for Pain Management currently has eight medical and surgical sites in Maryland and are building their ninth facility.
David P. Magit, MD, has joined the physicians at UMass Memorial Orthopedics of Milford in Milford, Mass., according to a Milford Daily News report.
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.In-office procedures present the most challenges for orthopedic practice coding, says Mu Medical Management Billing Supervisor Ms. Courtney Henderson, CPC, CPC-P. The…