One spine surgeon estimates he generated $20 million in annual revenue for a trauma center. But as more spine procedures become candidates for outpatient surgery, that figure illustrates a growing ...

Adil Ahmed, MD, is opening a solo orthopedic practice in Houston at a time when physician independence is moving in the opposite direction. The decline has been steady and well documented. By January ...

Hospitals and ASCs have spent years competing for surgical volume. Now, some are discovering that the economics of spine and orthopedic care increasingly favor working together. As more complex ...

SpineCraft received a U.S. patent for a hybrid technology that handles intraoperative registration and tracking in image-guided spine surgery. The spine surgery systems developer and manufacturer said ...

GLP-1 medications are doing something orthopedic surgeons have not seen: returning patients to the surgical candidate pool. Patients who were previously excluded from joint replacement because of ...

HealthCare is building a systemwide “spine dashboard” to track how its surgical and nonsurgical spine patients fare over the long term, as spine surgery faces fresh questions about its value. On Sept.

Patients who underwent robotic-assisted minimally invasive lumbar fusion surgery used 16% less opioid medication during hospitalization than those who underwent navigation-guided procedures, according ...

Independent spine and orthopedic practices are considering limiting Medicare appointments as CMS weighs a payment change that one Maryland-based group estimates could cost it $9 million over the next ...

The North American Spine Society named Christopher Kauffman, MD, president during its 41st Annual Meeting in San Antonio. Dr. Kauffman is an orthopedic surgeon in private practice in the Nashville, ...

Selective thoracic fusion preserved more lumbar motion than nonselective fusion in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients with Lenke C-type lumbar curves, but it left larger residual curves and ...

For patients with deteriorating joints, the traditional advice has often been to manage the pain until it becomes unbearable enough to justify replacement. But what if waiting is part of the problem?

Centinel Spine has received FDA approval for two-level use of its prodisc C Nova cervical artificial disc replacement device. The approval gives the company three cervical disc replacement devices ...