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CMS has announced that more than 500 healthcare organizations will start participating in its Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative.

Leadership from Baltimore-based Ameritox, a pain medication monitoring company, spoke at a recent briefing on Capitol Hill regarding the importance of ensuring that chronic pain patients have access to medications they need, while keeping communities safe.

Here are nine orthopedic surgeons who recently performed procedures on professional athletes.

The National Football League announced there will be neurological consultants for every team on the sidelines during games in the 2013 season, according to a report from The Inquisitr.

The National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment has agreed to fund $855,657 in sports medicine and concussion research, with 85 percent specifically focused on sports-related concussions.

San Antonio-based Orthopaedic and Spine Institute Medical Centers announced it will sponsor the American Basketball League for its inaugural season in 2013.

The Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas will offer services to the Powdersville Medical Center in Greenville, S.C., according to a Powdersville Post report.

Chris Leslie, DO, an orthopedic sports medicine physician, has been inducted into the 2012 Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, according to a Lake News report.

Hany Elrashidy, MD, recently joined the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation department of orthopedic surgery.

The American Academy of Family Physicians, American Medical Association and other medical societies have written letters urging HHS to postpone drafting stage 3 standards for meaningful use of electronic health record systems until it studies how the stage 1 criteria…