Orthopedic practices leave revenue on the table in ways that are easy to overlook: an idle OR, a missed call, a late-night note, a denial waiting in the rework queue. Each looks like a routine ...

For two decades, the financial risk in Medicare’s value-based experiments landed on institutions. Hospitals took on the bundles. Accountable care organizations absorbed the shared savings and the ...

St. Cloud, Minn.-based CentraCare will open a $194 million expansion at its Plaza campus June 29, adding more than 225,000 square feet of clinical space, according to a June 9 West Central Tribune ...

Somers Point, N.J.-based Shore Medical Center has become the first hospital in New Jersey to offer the Velys active robotic assistance platform for spine surgery. The platform pairs robotic assistance ...

Innovation rarely fails because the technology falls short. More often, it fails because organizations underestimate what it takes to adopt it. Michael Gallizzi, MD, a robotic and endoscopic spine ...

CHI Health broke ground June 24 on the Lakeside Hills orthopedic center in Omaha, Neb., according to a report from ABC affiliate KETV. The facility is designed to provide coordinated orthopedic care ...

Physician ownership of ASC has become a highly consequential factor shaping the future of the industry. Reimbursement is tightening, corporate buyers are aggressive and physicians are increasingly ...

For decades, rotator cuff surgery has been treated as a mechanical problem. A tendon tears. A surgeon brings it back to bone. Anchors and sutures hold it in place. The operation succeeds if the repair ...

The first patient worldwide has received Spinal Alignment Solutions’ PI-Rod spinal fixation system, the company said in a June 9 release shared with Becker’s. Micah Smith, MD, performed the procedure ...

Life Spine received FDA 510(k) clearance for its VersaLift Expandable Interbody System, a device designed for transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion and posterior lumbar interbody fusion procedures.

Laminoplasty — a cervical spine procedure that expands the spinal canal and relieves cord compression without fusing any vertebrae — is motion-preserving, well-established in Asia and Europe and ...

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons applauded the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health for advancing the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act, bipartisan ...