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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before some patients meet a spine surgeon, they have already watched the operation. They have seen a laminectomy demonstrated on TikTok, watched surgical instruments at work and heard physicians ...

William Leone, MD, changed the way he performs total hip replacements after decades of doing them another way. It was not because the operation was failing. Total hip replacement was already producing ...