Johnson & Johnson's 1Q Orthopedics Sales Up 59%
DePuy Synthes Spine parent company Johnson & Johnson reported the acquisition of Synthes and subsequent divestiture of the DePuy trauma business contributed to a 5.7 percent worldwide operational...
View ArticleNew Hospital-Biomedical Partnership to Focus on Orthopedics
St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in Cleveland and the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron (Ohio) announced an innovation partnership that will initially focus on orthopedics.Through the...
View ArticleHIPAA Compliance: What Providers Should Know About HITECH Act Mandatory Audits
1. HHS mandated auditsInvestigations by the Office for Civil Rights related to compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act will no longer be initiated by only complaints and...
View Article6 Hospitals Expanding Orthopedic Practices
Here are six hospitals and health systems recently opening or expanding their orthopedic care.1. Stamford Hospital will open its Orthopedic & Spine Institute at Chelsea Piers Connecticut on April...
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6 Spine Surgeons on Physician Partnerships for Improved Care
Six spine surgeons discuss how spine surgeons can partner with other surgeons to benefit patient care. Ask Spine Surgeons is a weekly series of questions posed to spine surgeons around the country...
View Article6 Things for Spine Surgeons to Know for Thursday
Here are six things for spine surgeons to know for Thursday, April 18, 2013.Medtronic Spine will cut workforce. Memphis, Tenn.-based Medtronic Spine announced intentions to restructure its workforce,...
View ArticleAAOS Supports Boston Bombing Victim Treatment With Free Online Trauma Articles
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is offering free online access to all recently published clinical and surgical techniques articles on severe trauma treatment to support those treating the...
View ArticleOIG Releases Updated Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol
The Office of Inspector General has released updated provider self-disclosure protocol, which is entirely revised from the SDP published in 1998. The protocol instructs healthcare providers what to do...
View Article7 Spine Surgeons in New Leadership Roles
Luiz Pimenta, MD, has been named the president of the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery. George Rappard, MD, is serving as the principal investigator in a clinical trial of the...
View ArticlePDP Responds to OIG Special Fraud Alert on Physician-Owned Distributorships
PDP Holdings recently released a statement in strong support for the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General Special Fraud Report of March 26, 2013, on physician-owned...
View ArticleAmendia Doubles Spine Device Manufacturing Facility
Marietta, Ga.-based Amendia plans to nearly double its spine device manufacturing operations, according to City Biz List Atlanta.The company expanded from about 49,000 square feet to 90,000. Amendia...
View ArticleFOCOS Orthopedic Hospital in Ghana Gets $4k Instrument Donation
gSource, a spine and orthopedic instruments developer, announced that it has donated surgical instruments, valued at $4,380, to the Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine, a non-profit...
View Article10 Honors & Leadership Positions for Sports Medicine Physicians
Here are 10 recent honors and new positions of leadership for sports medicine physicians.Chicago Bulls team physician and surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush Brian Cole, MD, will host the 2013...
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5 Tips for Better Billing in Spine Practices From Sunni Patterson of RMK
Sunni Patterson is President/CEO of RMK Holdings Inc., a medical billing and revenue cycle management company serving physicians, physician groups and other healthcare organizations. Here she discusses...
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6 Statistics on Physician Opinions of EHR
Currently, around 66 percent of physicians say they use electronic health records to meet meaningful use stage one requirements, according to the Deloitte 2013 Survey of U.S. Physicians.Of the...
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Business Associate Agreements: Being Judged by the Company You Keep
This article is written by Michael J. Sacopulos is the CEO of Medical Risk Institute. The past several years have witnessed explosive growth in HIPAA and HITECH Act enforcement actions against medical...
View ArticleSpineFrontier Launches Less Invasive Pedicle Screw System
Beverly, Mass.-based SpineFrontier has launched its PedFuse REmind Pedicle Screw System for midline lumbar surgery.The pedicle screw is one of the device company's less exposure surgery technologies....
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Running a Spine Practice in the Internet Era: 4 Things to Know
By Nicola Hawkinson, DNP, RN, RNFA, CEO of SpineSearch.The use of the internet within the field of healthcare continues to expand at a rapid rate. More and more physicians have created a "web presence"...
View ArticleDr. Steven Scott Donates $20M to Duke Sports
Steven Scott, MD, assistant consulting obstetrics and gynecology professor, and his wife Rebecca Scott have donated $20 million to the Duke University department of orthopaedic surgery sports medicine...
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Minimally Invasive Surgery Techniques in Spinal Deformity Conditions: Q&A...
Michael A. Gleiber, M.D., F.A.A.O.S., is a Board-Certified, Fellowship Trained, Spinal Surgeon and Founder of Michael A. Gleiber, MD, PA, in Jupiter and Boca Raton, Florida. In this article, he is...
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