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Chuck Lauer, Former Publisher of Modern Healthcare and Author, Public Speaker and Career Coach, talks about what a round of golf can say about a person's character.

Bradenton, Fla.-based Coastal Orthopedics & Sports Medicine/Pain Management announced that James Cottom, MD, has joined its medical staff.

St. Louis-based Mallinckrodt announced that the FDA has granted priority review to its new pain drug MNK-795.

Matthew Saltzman, MD, board-certified orthopedic surgeon of Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, has joined the Glenview (Ill.) Outpatient Center, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

On Thursday, Bryan Kelly, MD, board-certified orthopedic surgeon, is scheduled to perform hip surgery on the Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Percy Harvin, according to an NFL.com report.

The addition of spine services requires many centers to add specially trained staff, obtain capital equipment and the purchase of instruments and implantable devices. Failing to recognize cost may cause financial performance to vary significantly from the business plan. Here…

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Robert S. Bray, Jr., MD, and Karen Reiter will give a presentation titled "Advanced High Acuity Procedures for ASCs."

On average, Medicare paid three times as much for a short inpatient stay than for an observation stay in 2012, and beneficiaries paid almost twice as much, according to a report from the HHS Office of Inspector General.

OrthoNeuro in Columbus, Ohio, announced that Nicholas Cheney, DO, an orthopedic surgeon, has joined its medical staff.

A new study in the American Journal of Infection Control has identified five interventional areas that decrease the risk of surgical site infections after orthopedic surgery.