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Christian G. Zimmerman, MD, FACS, MBA, is chairman, medical director of Idaho Neurological Institute, and co-chairman, Spinal Medicine Institute, at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, ID.

CMS should improve payment processes that allowed $231 million in overpayments identified by Recovery Audit Contractors in the three-year demonstration phase of the RAC program, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

Several groups of physicians in North Carolina's Triad area have submitted three proposals for new outpatient surgery centers, which will compete for approval by the state, according to a report in The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area.

CMS has approved Colorado's Medicaid eligibility expansion program that requires charging Colorado hospitals $600 million in fees to access matching federal Medicaid funds, according to a report by the Denver Post.

Joshua A. Siegel, MD, is director of sports medicine for Access Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics in Exeter, N.H. He was recently named as a "top doctor" by New Hampshire Magazine for the sixth time.

Texas Back Institute in Plano, Texas, the largest freestanding spine specialty clinic in the United States, is marking the 10-year milestone as being the first practice to perform an artificial disc replacement surgical procedure in the nation, according to a…

Salem, Ore.-based Hope Orthopedics of Oregon has opened a satellite center for its busy therapy services department located in Keizer, according to a Hope Orthopedics news release.

Tampa, Fla.-based Laser Spine Institute, which operates three spine-focused surgery center, has opened a medical consultation facility in The Villages, Fla., according to a report in a report in the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

A workshop titled "The Business of Spine" will be held on Saturday, Apr. 10, from 8:30am – 1:00pm, at the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a nationwide conservative physicians' organization, has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the new health reform law, according to a report by the Arizona Daily Star.