Apr 24, 2015 | In the News
WGBH Boston Public Radio featured a story about minimally invasive hip replacement surgery. The reporter, Edgar Herwick, observed a surgery performed by AAHKS member Stephen B. Murphy, MD. AAHKS President, Jay R. Lieberman, MD was also interviewed for the story....
Apr 17, 2015 | In the News, Research
A study presented at the AAOS Annual Meeting by Bheeshma Ravi, MD, an orthopaedic surgery resident from the University of Toronto showed that women have fewer complications than men after hip or knee replacement surgery. Dr. Ravi used patient data from an Ontario...
Mar 13, 2015 | In the News
The article “Mom on the Move” in the Winter 2015 issue of NorthShore University HealthSystem’s Connections magazine features a 24-year old patient with rheumatoid arthritis who had two hip replacements. Her surgeon, AAHKS member, Lalit Puri, MD, MBA, talks about the...
Mar 13, 2015 | In the News
Roy I. Davidovitch, MD was interviewed for Orthopedics This Week for reportedly completing the first outpatient hip arthoplasy at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. Dr. Davidovitch talks about the collaboration of his team, the anterior approach he used, the...
Feb 28, 2015 | In the News, Medicare
On February 26, the House Ways and Means Committee passed PIMA, a bill to prevent Medicare fraud that includes a number of reforms that can be beneficial to orthopaedic surgeons. Specifically, it includes increased outreach and education for providers by Medicare...
Feb 28, 2015 | In the News, Research
Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that the expansion of insurance coverage in Massachusetts increased the number of elective knee and hip replacement procedures by 4.7 percent, with greater increases among black and Hispanic patients. The findings...
