Stryker lowered its full-year 2026 guidance after third-quarter results that the company’s chief executive said missed internal expectations. The Portage, Mich.-based medtech company now expects ...

As more spine procedures move into ASCs, a financial divide is taking shape: Who captures the revenue from routine outpatient procedures, and who bears the cost of the complex cases that remain in ...

Nearly one in five orthopedists who reported burnout said it is so severe that they are thinking of leaving medicine altogether, according to Medscape’s “Orthopedist Burnout & Depression Report 2026.” ...

For several months before he left private practice, Zachary Lum, DO, worked without a paycheck. So did the other physicians in his South Florida orthopedic group, which had turned to credit cards to ...

As reimbursement pressures and rising costs challenge independent orthopedic practices, surgeons are turning to direct employer contracts, bundled payments, ASC ownership and other strategies to ...

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

Reimbursement is tightening, and health systems are building anyway. CMS’ proposed 2027 physician fee schedule would cut orthopedic surgery pay by about 7% and neurosurgery by about 2%, yet systems ...

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, ...

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.

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, ...

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.

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 ...