For years, hand surgeons treating advanced thumb arthritis have relied on removing the arthritic trapezium to relieve pain. Replacing the damaged joint has offered another possibility, but implants ...

Spine and orthopedic care has long been paid under fee-for-service arrangement, which reimburses physicians and facilities for each visit, test and procedure. Payers, employers and CMS are ...

A spine surgeon who performs more procedures generates more relative value units. But what about one who prevents an unnecessary operation, reduces complications or gets patients to the right ...

Hrayr Basmajian, MD, has received a Gold Award at the 2026 TITAN Health Awards for his work in cosmetic and reconstructive limb lengthening. Dr. Basmajian is an orthopedic surgeon and founder of ...

George Hilliard III, MD, a co-founder of the Longview Orthopedic Clinic Association in Texas, died Oct. 12 at the age of 91. Dr. Hilliard co-founded the practice alongside Landon Colquitt Jr., MD, and ...

As more patients taking GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic seek spine surgery, surgeons need to look beyond weight loss to consider how changes in muscle and bone quality could affect surgical outcomes ...

Leo Kroonen, MD, plans to step down as chief of orthopedic surgery at Kaiser Permanente San Diego at the end of the year, according to an Oct. 15 LinkedIn post. Dr. Kroonen has spent more than eight ...

Kenneth Chakour, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Fox Valley Orthopedics in Geneva, Ill., became the first physician in Illinois and among the first nationwide to use new auto-planning software for the ...

Adil Ahmed, MD, is opening a solo orthopedic practice in Houston at a time when physician independence is moving in the opposite direction. The decline has been steady and well documented. By January ...

Hospitals and ASCs have spent years competing for surgical volume. Now, some are discovering that the economics of spine and orthopedic care increasingly favor working together. As more complex ...

One spine surgeon estimates he generated $20 million in annual revenue for a trauma center. But as more spine procedures become candidates for outpatient surgery, that figure illustrates a growing ...

HealthCare is building a systemwide “spine dashboard” to track how its surgical and nonsurgical spine patients fare over the long term, as spine surgery faces fresh questions about its value. On Sept.