ORTHOPEDICS THIS WEEK
VOLUME 12, ISSUE 6 | FEBRUARY 16, 2016
vices to their employee populations at
“significantly reduced rates” by working with NueHealth partners, all of
whom will participate in bundled pricing plans and offer special contract rates
to clients coming through the network.
Physician members will begin to negotiate contracts with payors in 2016.
Employers are told that the partnership’s
educational tools and resources will
keep them up to speed on the healthcare industry as it evolves, while bundled payments and lower-cost contracts
allow the employers to offer tailored,
cost-effective plans to its employees.
It’s not surprising to see the Rothman
Institute in the forefront of this partnership. The Institute’s founder, Dick
Rothman, M.D., has been urging his
colleagues in orthopedics and spine to
“capture the bundle” for years as payment models move from fee-based to
value-based models. — WE
PEOPLE
Brian Ennis: New
President of Implanet
America
B
rian T. Ennis is the new President of
Implanet America, a company specializing in vertebral and knee-surgery
implants.
Brian Ennis
Ennis said in the February 12, 2016
news release, “It is a true privilege to
join the Implanet team. I welcome
the opportunity to lead the division
through an aggressive expansion in the
U.S. market. I am quite confident that
there is tremendous upside with respect
to applying sub-laminar band technology to both the Deformity and Degenerative Spine market Segments.”
Ludovic Lastennet, CEO of Implanet,
added, “We are delighted to be able to
welcome Brian to lead Implanet’s U.S.
management team. His experience,
strategic vision and managerial skills
will enable him to successfully execute
Implanet’s ambitious growth plan in
the United States. During his career,
he has proven his ability to meet every
new challenge by obtaining outstanding results, whatever the issue. The successes he has recorded throughout his
career make Brian a natural leader for
our American subsidiary, which now
has a solid sales team and more than
25 partner agencies covering 60% of
the country. I am confident that Brian
will be instrumental in helping us reach
incremental major milestones in our
development.”
As indicated in the news release, “Ennis
began his career with C.R. Bard in
Sales and was rapidly promoted into
a marketing management role. After
a long tenure at Stryker Corporation
in a variety of Marketing and General
Management roles in the United States
and Europe, he served as the President
of International for Wright Medical
Group, which specializes in biotechnology and orthopedic devices. Brian
was then appointed as the President of
Empi, the premier provider of electrotherapeutic medical solutions and pain
management successfully leading the
company through an integration with a
major competitor. Subsequently, Brian
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was appointed as the President and
CEO at Etex Corporation, marshaling
the transformation of this start-up specializing in the Research & Development of biomaterials into a profitable
and viable high-growth company. Brian
has served Implanet as an Independent
Board Director and Special Advisor for
the past 2 years.”
Ennis told OTW, “Our initial steps will
focus on aggressively accelerating our
sales momentum by rapidly expanding
our sales force to maximize coverage,
recruiting additional key opinion leaders to facilitate a surgeon driven product
development initiative, and documenting the clinical efficacy of JAZZ technology in both the degenerative and deformity spine market segments.” — EH
Ronald W. Lindsey,
M.D. New Co-Editor of
Case Connector
M
arc Swiontkowski, M.D., Editorin-Chief of The Journal of Bone
& Joint Surgery (JBJS) and Co-Editor
of JBJS Case Connector, has announced
Ronald W. Lindsey, M.D.,
The Journal of Bone & Joint
Surgery
that, effective January 1, 2016, Ronald
W. Lindsey, M.D., joined Tom Bauer,
M.D. as Co-Editor of Case Connector.
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