Michael Price, MD, is a general orthopedic surgeon who performs outpatient sacroiliac joint fusions. He practices at the Spine and Orthopedic Center in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Healthcare was front and center in the "fiscal cliff" debates to end 2012 and will continue to play a large role in the "debt ceiling" debates in 2013. Over the next several years, many new initiatives will take place to reduce the percent of growth domestic product devoted to healthcare.

William Raasch, MD, team physician for the Milwaukee Brewers, performed knee surgery on first baseman Corey Hart, according to an ESPN report.

Orthopedic surgeon David M. Joyner, MD, will remain director of intercollegiate athletics at Penn State University, a position he has filled on a temporary basis since the previous director left amid scandal in late 2011.

Orthopedic surgeon Michael Shin, MD, of St. Margaret's Valley Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in Princeton, Ill., recently contributed a chapter in the surgical textbook "Insall & Scott Surgery of the Knee," according to a News Tribune report.

David Chao, MD, has sued Smith & Nephew for $2.2 million after performing a failed hip surgery using the company's implant, according to a Mass Device report.

The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine's Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine has published a position statement on sports-related concussions.

The Food and Drug Administration issued a safety communication for metal-on-metal implants.

While only 6 percent of patients in the United States are worried about financial relationships between surgeons and device industry representatives, most patients feel surgeons should not receive gifts from industry members, according to a new study published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

Founder of Naples, Fla.-based Zehr Center for Orthopaedics Robert J. Zehr, MD, completed his 500th direct anterior approach to hip surgery, according to a WINK News report.