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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.

J. Michael Connors, MD, of Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford has received the 2013 Joseph P. Cravero Leadership Award from the Society for Pediatric Sedation, according to a report by The Courant.

The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine has granted the late William Grana, MD, MPH, its 2013 Robert E. Leach Mr. Sports Medicine award.

During the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine annual meeting, researchers, including lead author Daryl C. Osbahr, MD, presented the results of a study on the long-term results of ulnar collateral ligament surgery in baseball players.

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, industry experts will give a presentation titled "Key Items That Great Administrators and DONs Focus On."