Privately held orthopedic implant company Engage Surgical released a cementless partial knee replacement system July 1, after receiving FDA approval.

Here are 19 spine facilities that opened or will open this year:

San Antonio-based TSAOG Orthopaedics lost 90 percent of its surgical volume and half its office visits from mid-March through April, the San Antonio Business Journal reports.

Total joint replacement specialist Earl Feng, MD, will join Phoenix-based OrthoArizona, the largest orthopedic practice in Arizona, May 26.

Zimmer Biomet supplied artificial knee implants to two hospitals in Guatemala for physicians to perform total knee replacements, Inside Indiana Business reported.

Minneapolis-based Twin Cities Orthopedics is celebrating the grand opening of its new Woodbury, Minn., location Sept. 30, the Woodbury Bulletin reports.

OrthoAtlanta in Stockbridge, Ga., named orthopedic surgeon and foot and ankle specialist Minoo Hollis, MD, to its staff.

Becker's 15th Annual Spine, Orthopedic & Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference + The Future of Spine took place in Chicago June 22-24. During the meeting, Jeffrey Simmons, chief development officer of Westchester, Ill.-based Regent Surgical Health, and Pierce Nunley, MD, director of the Spine Institute of Louisiana in Shreveport, discussed spine cases in the ASC setting during a panel moderated by Bart Walker, partner with McGuireWoods.

Tornier, the orthopedic medical device company, recently received FDA clearance to market the Simpliciti Shoulder System. Here are the top four things to know about the device.  

At the 12th Annual Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 13, Amy Mowles, president and CEO of Mowles Medical Practice Management, spoke about reimbursement for pain management in the coming years.

Recent figures from the American Medical Group Association broke down median salaries for orthopedic surgeons based on subspecialty, according to a Houston Chronicle report. 

Here are 13 statistics on how orthopedic surgeons divide their time while at work, according to the Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2013.

Laser Spine Institute's Tampa, Fla., facility supported Metropolitan Ministries to help families in need receive food this Thanksgiving and holiday season.

Here are 6 statistics on physician practice acquisitions in 2012 and anticipated acquisitions in 2013 and where orthopedic surgeons fit in, according to a Jackson Healthcare survey.

Gloria Beim, MD, of Alpine Surgery Center in Colorado, was named chief medical officer for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

Steven Meier, MD, a medical director of the Knee Surgery Center of Excellence, a division of La Peer Health Systems in Beverly Hills, performed the first DeNovo NT Natural Tissue Graft at the center.

Over the past decade, orthopedic surgeons have safely moved many procedures from the hospital inpatient department to the ambulatory surgery center. The results for this transition — lower costs, lower infection rates, increased patient satisfaction — could not have been possible without advances in surgical techniques and approaches.

Spine surgeons discuss whether they are bringing cases to the outpatient setting and what it would take to get them there.

Cardinal Health has made an investment to contribute to Intralign, a specialty healthcare services provider.

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 24, Jeffrey Nees, MD, a neurosurgeon with Laser Spine Institute, talked about trends for outpatient minimally invasive stabilization surgery.