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 ...
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, ...
Gaithersburg, Md.-based Adventist HealthCare has acquired Rockville, Md.-based Shady Grove Orthopaedics, an eight-physician practice. The practice transitioned to Adventist HealthCare Oct. 3, with its ...
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 ...
The future of spine surgery may depend less on what happens in the operating room than on who controls everything that happens before it. For decades, spine practices have built their businesses ...
The highest paid orthopedic surgeon in Milwaukee earns $1,152,400, according to Medscape’s salary reporter tool, which is much higher than the mean annual wage of $373,570 orthopedic surgeons make ...
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, ...
Some spine ASCs have stopped paying for implants by the screw. Frank Phillips, MD, a spine surgeon at Chicago-based Midwest ...
Aurora Spine reported a 63% clinical success rate at 12 months in a study evaluating its ZIP MIS Interlaminar Fusion System in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and degenerative disc disease. The ...
The robot recommended a cut. James Gholson, MD, knew something was wrong. He was assisting a young orthopedic surgeon through her first robotic knee replacement. She had extensive training with the ...
Orthopedic and spine surgeons filed more than 1,000 comments opposing CMS’ proposed 2027 physician fee schedule, zeroing in on a roughly 20% cut to joint replacement payment and a 50% cut to same-day ...
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