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  Somerset N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson Physician Enterprise added Jennifer Tareco, MD, to the RWJPE Bridgewater (N.J.) Medical Group.

Total compensation — salary, bonus and benefits — for orthopedic surgeons is around $576,789 on average, according to Salary.com.

Kaiser State Health Facts compiled information on average cost per inpatient day in 2011 by hospital ownership type.

The average income offered to neurosurgeons was $591,000, according to Merritt Hawkins' 2014 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives.

E. Edward Khalfayan, MD, will perform knee surgery on Seattle Mariners utilityman Willie Bloomquist, according to a Belleville News Democrat report.

Here are 10 orthopedic surgeons in the news this week.

  Hospital for Special Surgery is planning a new office in Stamford, Conn., with renovations to the new space already under way.

  The Pinehurst Surgical (N.C.) Clinic added Christopher M. Johnson, MD, to its Orthopaedic and Joint Replacement Center.

North Arkansas Regional Medical Center in Harrison added Justin L. Cutler, DO, to its medical staff, according to a report by The Baxter Bulletin.

The August 2014 edition of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery includes a study on the postoperative narcotic use and physician shopping among orthopedic trauma patients and trends to watch in the future.