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Outpatient Spine
Neurologists have one of the highest starting salaries for physicians, and generate over $2 million for hospitals, according to surveys conducted by physician search firm Merritt Hawkins.
Here are six spine ASCs and practices that have been opened or announced this year:
Morristown, N.J.-based Altair Health opened a 16,000-square-foot ASC devoted to spine care and pain management procedures in Florham Park, N.J.
Gilsbar, a private health and benefits management organization, expanded its employee benefits to include Regenexx's interventional orthopedic clinic network.
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Bruce D. Moffatt, MD, joined the staff of two Phoenix Spine & Joint ASCs in Scottsdale and Goodyear, Ariz.
The Spine Institute at Baldwin Bone & Joint added nurse practitioner Elizabeth "Hill" Luscher, CRNP, to its team of neck and spine specialists.
Texas Health Surgery Center Rockwall launched its outpatient total joint replacement program six months ago and to date the multispecialty ASC reports great success.
Between 2016 and 2021, the Advisory Board forecasts 23 percent growth in outpatient surgery while over the same time period projecting inpatient surgery growth of 1 percent.
On July 8, a U.S. district judge certified the class action lawsuit against Laser Spine Institute, the Tampa-based outpatient spine surgery center chain, brought by former employees after the company closed its doors, according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal.