The question used to be almost automatic. Do you take my insurance? Shobhit Minhas, MD, orthopedic hand surgeon and partner at Geneva, Ill.-based Fox Valley Orthopedics, is hearing a different one ...

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco has opened an eight-bed Children’s Neuroscience Specialty Unit, expanding its inpatient capacity for children with neurologic and neurosurgical ...

A child with a malformed hip does not become a different patient on their 18th birthday. Similarly, the disease does not recognize the border between pediatric and adult medicine. The healthcare ...

Houston-based TYBR Health, a medtech and orthopedic regenerative medicine company, has secured $30 million in a Series A financing round.  The company will use the funds to expand commercial access to ...

A patient sees a primary care physician for back pain, then a physical therapist, then a pain specialist, perhaps a chiropractor, perhaps another pain specialist. There may be injections, an ablation, ...

A microscope can make an operation more intricate. It does not necessarily make the hospital more necessary. Vanessa ...

Legal pressure on orthopedic and spine providers came from multiple directions in the second quarter, spanning payer fraud suits, a kickback guilty plea and a device liability claim. Here are five ort ...

A new expert position statement reframes complications after joint replacement and spinal fusion as a single outcome, implant fixation failure, and recommends routine bone health optimization before ...

The Synergy Disc, a cervical disc replacement device from Synergy Spine Solutions, has been used in 100 cervical disc replacement procedures in the U.S. following FDA approval earlier this year. The ...

Ogdensburg, N.Y.-based North Star Health Alliance will hold a public hearing July 30 in Watertown on its plan to close North Country Orthopaedic Group’s ASC, one of three hearings scheduled the week ...

Surgical workflow and operations software company eXeX appointed Max Reinhardt president of healthcare. Mr. Reinhardt will lead commercial execution for the company’s surgery intelligence platform, ...

A group of physician lawmakers has introduced the Patients First Act, which revamps the Medicare physician fee schedule, expands access to care and improves incentives for independent practices.  Here ...