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This issue covers topics such as spine surgery reimbursement, maintaining private practice and healthcare reform. It contains expertise from spine surgeons such as Edward Benzel, MD, of Cleveland Clinic; Jeffrey Goldstein, MD, of NYU Langone Medical Center’s Hospital for Joint…

Larry Dorr, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and founder of the Dorr Institute for Arthritis Research and Education Foundation, organized a volunteer medical trip to Tanzania, according to a Sioux City Journal report.

Steven Shin, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in Los Angeles, performed surgery on professional golfer Spencer Levin, according to a PGA Tour report.

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At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Larry D. Taylor, President and CEO of Practice Partners in Healthcare, and Sean McNally, CEO of Moore Clinic will give a presentation titled "Key Relationships Between ASCs & Hospitals."

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, chairman of the American Society for Interventional Pain Physicians, was recently featured in an Every Day Health report discussing the recent fungal meningitis outbreak from contaminated steroid injections from a compounding pharmacy.

Three physicians and health policy directors with Physicians for a National Health Program conducted a study on how Medicare pays private insurers, also known as Medicare Advantage plans, and they identified overpayments totaling $282.6 billion since 1985.

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