Physician independence in orthopedics isn’t dying, but it is being redefined. For surgeons, it no longer means a solo practice and a handful of insurance contracts. It means owning the facility, ...

Bon Secours Mercy Health’s planned $5.7 billion acquisition of Surgery Partners would put a national outpatient surgery ...

Florida has 21 hospitals on Healthgrades’ list of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Spine Surgery, the most of any state and one more than last year’s 20. California follows with 16 and Texas with 13.

Machine learning is increasingly being explored in spine surgery to predict patient outcomes, assist surgical planning and improve intraoperative decision-making, according to a review in the fall ...

Spine surgeons and health systems are adopting technologies ranging from robotic guidance and patient-specific implants to AI-assisted triage, endoscopic surgery and lower-cost navigation tools.

Hybrid cervical surgery has nearly two decades of clinical evidence behind it, even though several commercial payers still classify the technique as experimental or investigational to deny coverage, ...

Healthgrades published its “Specialty Excellence 2027 Awards,” recognizing hospitals for their patient outcomes across 19 specialties, including outpatient orthopedic surgery.  Five hospitals in New ...

Medicare pays female and male neurosurgeons the same for identical procedures. The sex-based gap in total Medicare reimbursement comes from differences in procedure mix and patient complexity, ...

For spine surgeons, declining reimbursement is no longer just a financial concern. It is increasingly shaping which patients they can see, which procedures they can offer and how much time they can ...

Spine surgeons may determine when an operation is necessary, but they do not necessarily control the financial decisions surrounding it. Insurers influence which procedures are covered and whether ...

For Arianna Gianakos, DO, the future of foot and ankle surgery may be defined less by what surgeons can do than by what they no longer need to do. Among these are smaller incisions, less disruption to ...

In spine and orthopedic surgery, an abnormal MRI is not a surgical indication. But patients arrive convinced it is, and sorting through that disconnect is the most consequential part of the job, ...