Legislators in Iowa have passed a bill to ban University of Iowa Health Care from utilizing noncompete clauses in employment contracts, The Gazette reported April 7. The bill passed out of the state Senate by a vote of 43-2. It…
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Physicians at Advanced Surgery Center of Beverly Hills (Calif.) have performed the first post-FDA-approval case using the Synergy Disc. Todd Lanman, MD, and Joel Beckett, MD, completed a three-level cervical disc replacement procedure five weeks after the device received premarket…
A bill that recently cleared Missouri’s House Special Committee on Rural Issues that would authorize Columbia-based University of Missouri Health Care to acquire hospitals across 25 rural counties in the region, according to an April 6 viewpoint published by te…
The center of orthopedic care is shifting, and faster than many expected. For Leo Spector, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon and CEO of OrthoCarolina, the move away from hospitals and into ambulatory and office-based settings represents one of the most significant…
Newport News-based Coastal Virginia Surgery Center performed its first total ankle replacement, expanding its advanced orthopedic offerings. Bryanna Vesely, DPM, a foot and ankle surgeon at Orthopaedic & Spine Center, performed the procedure. The patient was discharged the same day,…
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New Providence, N.J.-based Summit Health performed the first complete robotic-assisted shoulder replacement in a freestanding ASC at Summit Atlantic Surgery Center in Florham Park, N.J. The procedure used the ROSA robotics platform from Zimmer Biomet and included both anatomic and…
A Pleasant View, Utah-based physician has been indicted on charges of obtaining unapproved drugs from China and selling them to more than 200 patients without their knowledge, the Justice Department said in an April 2 news release. Between February 2024…
While AI-enabled scribes have produced modest decreases in time spent in EHRs and documentation time, they did not significantly cut down the amount of time spent in the EHR outside of work hours, according to a study published April 1…
The Leapfrog Group is expanding its Ambulatory Surgery Center Public Reporting Program to include nearly 4,000 ASCs in the U.S. The expanded program will use CMS public reporting, accreditation standards and its “ASC Survey 2.0” measure and report ASC performance,…
A family medicine clinic in Trenary, Mich. will permanently close April 28, TV6 reported March 31. UP Medical Group cited declining demand for services at the Trenary Family Medicine clinic. Patients may continue to see their current provider at Marquette…