At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain-Management Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 14, Greg P. DeConciliis, PA-C, administrator of Boston Out-Patient Surgical Suites, and Anthony Schena, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Pro Sports Orthopedics in Brighton, Mass, shared three key benefits of ambulatory surgery centers that can be used to recruit or retain surgeons to an ASC.

At the 11th Annual Spine, Orthopedic & Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference on June 13, Scott Glaser, MD, DABIPP, of Pain Specialists of Chicago discussed how pain management practices can approach improving care and increasing efficiency.

A poll taken earlier this year by the American College of Physician Executives found that more than half of physician leaders felt their organizations would be impacted by sequestration.

Most physician leaders think online physician ratings are inaccurate, unreliable and not widely used by patients, according to a survey from the American College of Physician Executives.

The Concierge Medicine Research Collective released new data on concierge medicine in the U.S., based on surveys and polls from physicians between 2009 and 2012.

A new Georgia law offers additional protection for physicians against medical liabilities, according to an American Medical Association report.

Recently, the Medicare chargemaster data has been made publicly available for how much hospitals bill Medicare for top procedures. Rates varied widely and as media sources scramble to cover these variations, a new push toward price transparency is gaining momentum. The big question is: will price transparency for individual physicians be next?

House Republicans unveiled a draft of a bill intended to replace Medicare's sustainable growth rate permanently and end the annual game of political hot potato in which lawmakers bargain to overwrite it and avoid cutting physician pay.

Three spine surgeons talk about what current surgeons and practitioners can learn from their experienced predecessors.

A study has found that about one-third of pain management-related applications were created without any obvious input from a healthcare professional, according to an American Medical News report.