An orthopedic practice can absorb financial pressure in dozens of small ways. It can wait another year to replace an X-ray machine. Renegotiate supply contracts. Push for more volume. Search for ...

Lexington, Ky.-based Cardiff Lexington, a healthcare company focused on orthopedics and spine care, has signed a letter of intent with the owners of a physician-led, multi-location musculoskeletal ...

The reimbursement system for orthopedics is overdue for a rework, according to surgeons calling for greater transparency from payers and faster adoption of value-based care models. Medicare ...

Gainesville, Fla.-based Orthopedic Care Partners named Alex Dashe president of its Arizona Division. Mr. Dashe will join OCP this week and work with outgoing Arizona Division President Paula Hecht ...

Reverse total shoulder arthroplasty now makes up more than half of the shoulder arthroplasties reported to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Shoulder & Elbow Registry. Of 39,251 procedures ...

For Micah Richardson, MD, the case for private practice in joint replacement comes down to control — over where she operates, how her practice runs, and how it responds as CMS reimbursement grows more ...

Columbus-based OhioHealth orthopedic surgeon Stephen Berling, MD, in May became the first surgeon in Ohio to implant the Touch CMC 1 prosthesis. The thumb implant had been used more than 130,000 times ...

Longevity medicine has built an industry around helping people live longer without losing the ability to live well. Robert Masson, MD, president and neurological surgeon at the Orlando, Fla.-based ...

When Ki-Eun Chang, MD, arrived at the military hospital where he now practices, there was no endoscopic spine equipment. He was also working within a government purchasing process that he says tends ...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued Cincinnati-based Mercy Health, alleging the health system fired a Jewish orthopedic surgeon because of his religion and race shortly after the ...

North American Spine Society released a patient safety position statement outlining education, training and competency principles for physicians performing spine interventions. The statement was ...

For Jake Hartline, MD, the decision to build a sports medicine career in private practice rather than in a hospital-employed ...