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Treatment for orthopedic and spine injuries and conditions can have a huge economic impact on individuals as well as society. However, untreated orthopedic injuries and conditions often leave people unable to work, placing additional economic strain on patients and families.…

An angiogram claim on Canada's public health plan costs $35. In the United States, a study of hundreds of health plans revealed the same procedure costs, on average, $914, with a range from $173 in the lowest quartile and $2,430…

Leonardo Kapural, MD, was lead clinical investigator for a double-blinded randomized controlled trial comparing cooled radiofrequency with the Kimberly-Clark TransDiscal Cooled Radiofrequency System for patients with discogenic and sacroiliac joint pain. He found that patients who underwent cooled radiofrequency experienced…

Tucker, Ga.-based ONP Specialty Group announced that it has opened an orthopedics division in Atlanta.  

Leesburg, Va.-based K2M has launched a bone graft system, an expansion of its biologics offering.

Albany, N.Y.-based OrthoNY will provide orthopedic urgent care services at its Mechanicville, N.Y., and Albany, N.Y., offices, beginning April 15, according to a report by The Business Review.

Minneapolis-based Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota announced that it has been named a 2013 Center of Excellence in Pain Management by the American Pain Society.

Patients undergoing major cancer surgery had increased rates of healthcare-associated infections but decreased mortality rates from 1999 to 2009, according to a study in Cancer.

Michigan hospitals, which began an initiative to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections in 2007, reduced CAUTI rates significantly more than hospitals in other states, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.

In a letter to CMS, the American Hospital Association said creating a new patient experience survey for hospital outpatient surgical departments and ambulatory surgery centers would duplicate existing surveys.