UMP Texas-Based Partnership Creates 372 Ortho Provider Network

Atlanta, Georgia-based United Musculoskeletal Partners (UMP) has grown to 372 total providers thanks to its most recent partnership with two Texas-based orthopedic practices, All-Star Orthopaedics and OrthoTexas Physicians and Surgeons, PLLC (OrthoTexas).

All-Star Orthopaedics has four clinic locations in Irving, Southlake, Flower Mound, and Alliance. For more than 25 years its team has provided orthopedic care to patients in the area. Its board-certified surgeons have a broad range of expertise including sports medicine, joint replacement, spinal surgery, neck surgery, upper extremity care, and foot and ankle surgery.

OrthoTexas serves patients from the following five locations: Carrollton, Frisco, Frisco Comerica Center, Plano, and Denton. OrthoTexas has a team of 13 physicians and surgeons which includes fellowship-trained specialists. It also includes a team of physical and occupational therapists.

The partnership expands UMP’s Texas-based practices which include Arlington Orthopedic Associates, North Texas Orthopedics & Spine Center, and Abilene Sports Medicine and Orthopedics. CEO of the UMP-Texas market Brian Cormican explained, “With these two new practices joining UMP, we now have 69 physicians and 110 providers practicing at 27 locations around the Metroplex.”

Cormican continued, “That means that more patients in the area have access to the very best orthopedic care in the southwest close to home.”

UMP is a physician-owned management services company focused on musculoskeletal care. It was founded in 2021 by Resurgens Orthopaedics, Georgia’s largest orthopedic practice. UMP has partnered with practices in Texas, Georgia, and Colorado. This latest partnership brings UMP’s total physician count to 223.

UMP CEO Alex Bateman commented, “We are thrilled to welcome All-Star Orthopaedics and OrthoTexas to the UMP platform.”

Bateman continued, “It is our goal to build the premier musculoskeletal enterprise in the country by joining forces with like-minded physician-owned and led orthopedic practices that share our commitment to putting the patient first and to growing through innovation and synergy. These two new additions to our platform strengthen that commitment and we look forward to working with them and with patients in all corners of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.”

A UMP executive told OTW, “The UMP platform is designed to enable physicians to focus on excellence in clinical care while the business team supports physician goals and handles the business and back-end needs of the practice.”

“The business team is focused on creating and implementing system-wide tools, systems and processes that enable consistency and benchmarking. Three high priorities for 2023 include: Implementing a system that supports the Quality Committee scorecard and consistently measures and tracks patient reported outcomes and patient satisfaction; Enhancing patient access by implementing self-scheduling for new and existing patients at all practices; and Creating a broad total rewards compensation program to help our practices recruit and retain talent in this difficult labor environment.”