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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For Jake Hartline, MD, the decision to build a sports medicine career in private practice rather than in a hospital-employed ...
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 ...
CMS is expanding its Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions Model to provide ongoing support for certain specified conditions within its chronic musculoskeletal pain track beyond ...
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 ...
An orthopedic practice can obtain prior authorization from a Medicare Advantage plan, perform the procedure and still not know whether the payment will hold. Wilford Gibson, MD, sees a fundamental ...
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 ...
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 ...