Gastroenterologists are now offered the highest average starting salary of any physician at $654,000, surpassing orthopedic surgeons, who had led the rankings for four consecutive years. Average ...

Expandable interbody cages restore disc height more reliably than static cages, but evidence on spinal alignment and subsidence is mixed, according to an article in the fall 2026 issue of Vertebral ...

King of Prussia, Pa.-based Premier Orthopaedics & Philadelphia Hand to Shoulder Center recently added five physicians to its organization.  The new physicians specialize in elbow and shoulder surgery, ...

The Center for Bone & Joint Surgery of the Palm Beaches, an orthopedic and spine practice, has suffered a data breach, according to an Oct. 19 report from Claim Depot. The timeline and method of the ...

By 2019, Marc Pietropaoli, MD, had built an orthopedic practice with dozens of employees. But when he examined its finances, he discovered something troubling: The only profitable services were those ...

Pediatric spine surgeons have always had to plan for decades, not years. Now, the rest of spine appears to be catching up. Nicholas Fletcher, MD, medical director of the spine program at Children’s ...

Excessive mental workload may affect surgical performance and patient safety, and wearable devices and other physiological monitoring could help researchers measure it, according to an article in the ...

The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics, a Bethesda, Md.-based orthopedic practice, called on Congress to stop Medicare physician payment cuts set to take effect Jan. 1, 2027. CMS has proposed a 1.68% ...

Spine surgeons adopting robotic-assisted and endoscopic techniques face widely varying learning curves, with research showing large differences in the number of procedures needed to achieve ...

Cleveland Clinic will acquire Youngstown, Ohio-based Youngstown Orthopaedic Associates, and the practice will join the system Nov. 1, according to an Oct. 15 letter to patients. The deal comes amid a ...

Tertiary and quaternary academic medical centers absorb the hardest spine cases in the country, and the pressure on them is building faster than the resources to address them. “I worry about the ...

As spine malpractice verdicts reach eight figures, surgeons are becoming more cautious about patient selection, complex procedures and managing expectations, though some warn that fear of litigation ...