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Charles Theofilos, MD, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., will provide free examinations and evaluations from uninsured patients with serious neck and back problems to give back to patients in his community, according to a report in the Palm Beach Post.

The FDA's Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Advisory Committee has unanimously recommended for FDA approval a ceramic-on-metal hip from DePuy Orthopaedics, according to a release from DePuy, a unit of Johnson & Johnson.

Orthofix International has appointed another former Stryker executive, naming Michael Mainelli Jr. to its board of directors, according to Orthofix.

A new physicians group that opposes a government-run healthcare plan has issued results of a nationwide poll it conducted, finding that 70 percent of specialty doctors oppose current health-care reform proposals, according to a release from the group, the American…

President Obama inaccurately portrayed reimbursements for foot surgery and surgeons' role in prevention in an Aug. 11 speech on health reform delivered in Portsmouth, N.H., according to an AAOS release.

The U.S. government announced nearly $1.2 billion in grants to help hospitals and other healthcare providers implement electronic health records, according to a Reuters report.

Physicians commenting online about the current health reform legislation say it does not address several key causes of healthcare inflation, such as malpractice pay-outs, billing procedures and emphasis on preventive medicine, according to Sermo, a Web site exclusively for physicians…

New regulations from the Department of Health and Human Services require healthcare providers, health plans and other entities covered under HIPAA to notify individual when their healthcare information has been breached, according to an HHS news release.

The America's Health Insurance Plans has commissioned a report which, not surprisingly, claims some out-of-network physicians are charging patients fees as high as 1,000 percent of Medicare reimbursements for the same service in the same geographic area.

Here is a list of 10 outstanding administrators of orthopedic and spine practices.