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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Foot & Ankle Specialists, a foot and ankle surgery and treatment practice, has provided notice of a data breach.  The practice became aware of unusual activity in its network environment on or about ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Anthony Johnson, MD, is the new president of Towson, Md.-based West Point Orthopaedic Society, according to an Oct. 28 LinkedIn post. Dr. Johnson succeeds Joseph Hsu, MD. He is an orthopaedic sports ...

The North American Spine Society has released coverage recommendations for growing rods used to treat pediatric scoliosis. The recommendations provide evidence-based guidance for managing scoliosis in ...

The strategy that helped independent spine and pain practices grow over the past decade may not be the one that keeps them financially viable in the future. For years, many practices have turned to ...

About 7% of patients go to the emergency department within 90 days of elective spine surgery, and those patients keep using more healthcare for the rest of the year, according to a study published in ...

After a decade of private equity deals and practice consolidation, orthopedic surgeons at an Illinois ASC say younger surgeons are becoming more skeptical of giving up control of their practices. “It ...

At Oswego, Ill.-based Kendall Pointe Surgery Center, patients now come back from surgery to the same bay they left from. Patient surveys drove the change. The physician-owned orthopedic ASC built out ...