Tifton, Ga.-based Tift Regional Health System's musculoskeletal center celebrated the project meeting its halfway point, the Tifton Gazette reports.
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Crystal Lake, Ill.-based OrthoIllinois broke ground on its new Algonquin, Ill.-based clinic Sept. 20, the Northwest Herald reports.
The Joint Commission awarded Paris (Texas) Surgery Center its gold seal of approval for total knee replacement, The Paris News reports.
Newton, Mass.-based Atrius Health physicians James Phillips, MD, and Georges Almacari, MD, performed Massachusetts' first total hip replacement in a freestanding ASC at Waltham, Mass.-based Boston Out-Patient Surgical Suites.
After participating in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement program at his local hospital, a group of total joint surgeons in Greensboro, NC realized they could implement similar bundled payments with their Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA) surgery center. They hatched…
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Knoxville (Tenn.) Orthopaedic Clinic, a division of OrthoTennessee, partnered with Humana to provide Humana's Medicare Advantage beneficiaries with access to outpatient hip and knee replacements at Knoxville Orthopaedic Surgery Center.
Atlanta-based Resurgens Orthopaedics participated in Operation Walk USA last year, delivering a total hip replacement at no cost to a patient without the means to pay for surgery.
El Dorado Hills, Calif.-based Consensus Orthopedics created the TracPatch to help providers monitor a patient's post-total knee replacement recovery.
WMBF profiled Peter Ramsey, MD, of Coastal Orthopedics in Conway, S.C, because of a recent total hip replacement procedure he performed.
Orthopedic surgeon Michael Ast, MD, moved to the Lawrenceville, N.J. area several years ago, bringing with him the goal to offer outpatient total joint replacement the region.