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$16M Mizzou BioJoint settlement brings long legal case to close

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University of Missouri Health Care opened a $40 million expansion of the Missouri Orthopaedic Institute

University of Missouri Health Care opened a $40 million expansion on Thursday of the Missouri Orthopaedic Institute. The new building includes five new operating rooms, 22 additional private inpatient rooms and 19 more outpatient rooms.

In the summer of 2014, Daniel Draper was active duty in the U.S. Army and living in Dixon, Missouri. His back hurt and his knee ached. Service to his country had taken a toll on his body.

His doctor referred him to a well-known orthopaedic surgeon in Columbia who, like Draper, had served in the military. The new doctor pitched a surgery that would prevent him from ever needing a total artificial knee replacement, according to court documents.

Missouri Orthopaedic Institute patient Matt Boehner cuts the opening ribbon

James Stannard, third from left, attends the ribbon-cutting for the Missouri Orthopaedic Institute in 2017 with former Chancellor Alexander Cartwright, MU Health Care CEO Jonathan Curtright, UM System President and MU Chancellor Mun Choi and others. A lawsuit against Stannard was settled.

James Cook holds a bottle of biological joint replacement

James Cook holds a bottle of biological joint replacement at the Missouri Orthopaedic Institute. Cook, the subject of a recent lawsuit, is the director of operations and scientific director at Mizzou BioJoint Center.

  • I'm a graduate from the Missouri School of Journalism and former reporter with the Missourian. Currently, I'm a working for a law firm in Dallas, Tx before beginning law school later this year. Reach me at @ByHunterGilbert on Twitter

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