Unnecessary surgery claims, device liability, kickback prosecutions and executive disputes have all shaped the year for spine and orthopedic providers and manufacturers. Here are 10 cases that ...

Philadelphia-based Rothman Orthopaedics opened a walk-in orthopedic center in Center City Philadelphia on Nov. 2, offering evaluations without appointments for patients ages 10 and older. The center ...

From first-in-the-nation procedures to new technology debuts, here are 19 milestones in spine and orthopedic surgery, as reported by Becker’s since July 1. Editor’s note: This list is not exhaustive.

Minimally invasive spine surgery is expanding, but surgeons are drawing a sharper distinction between smaller incisions and better outcomes. While many see clear benefits for routine decompressions ...

Surgeons, not hospitals, drive most of the cost variation in single-level lumbar fusion: Surgeon-level cost variation ran 30 times greater than hospital-level variation, according to research ...

Max Zarling, MD, a neurosurgeon and former chief of staff at St. Paul, Minn.-based United Hospital, died Oct. 23 at his home in Edina, Minn., according to an obituary published in The Minnesota Star ...

A single decision in spine surgery can carry financial consequences far beyond the operating room. From a proposed $155.5 million settlement involving allegations of unnecessary procedures to implant ...

Stryker lowered its full-year 2026 guidance after third-quarter results that the company’s chief executive said missed internal expectations. The Portage, Mich.-based medtech company now expects ...

As more spine procedures move into ASCs, a financial divide is taking shape: Who captures the revenue from routine outpatient procedures, and who bears the cost of the complex cases that remain in ...

Foot & Ankle Specialists, a foot and ankle surgery and treatment practice, has provided notice of a data breach.  The practice became aware of unusual activity in its network environment on or about ...

Bon Secours Mercy Health’s planned $5.7 billion acquisition of Surgery Partners would put a national outpatient surgery ...

Physician independence in orthopedics isn’t dying, but it is being redefined. For surgeons, it no longer means a solo practice and a handful of insurance contracts. It means owning the facility, ...