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Globus Medical introduced two spine surgery technologies at the 41st Annual North American Spine Society Meeting in San Antonio, which runs Oct. 14-17. The technologies include SCRIPT, an FDA-cleared patient-specific spinal implant platform, and the XLIF Prone Procedural Solution, according…

Complex spine deformity surgery leaves little margin for ambiguity about who says what, and when. The Best Practice Guidelines for the Execution of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring in Spine Deformity Surgery set out what sound practice looks like. This session brings the…

Oct 28, 2026 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CDT

Presented by:

Presented by
Presenters:
  • Jason B Anari, MD, Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Benjamin B. Bruins, MD, Attending Physician, Division of Critical Care, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Alier Franco, PhD, CNIM, Area Clinical Manager, SpecialtyCare

As more patients taking GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic seek spine surgery, surgeons need to look beyond weight loss to consider how changes in muscle and bone quality could affect surgical outcomes, Jonathan Rasouli, MD, told Becker’s.  Dr. Rasouli, a…

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 procedures move out of hospitals, health systems are seeking outpatient capacity,…

An increasing share of healthcare payment now carries downside risk, and CMS has signaled more to come: greater provider-held risk, more mandatory models and quality reporting with real financial consequences. But the pressure isn’t confined to value-based care. The same…

Oct 26, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT

Presented by:

Presented by
Presenters:
  • Anthony Spano, Executive Director, Value-Based Care, athenahealth
  • Poonam Desai, Vice President Regional Ambulatory Operations and Clinic Integration, UChicago Medicine
  • Dani Chickerella, MSM, RD, Chief of Clinical Strategy & System Delivery, University Hospitals
  • Gene Quinn, MD, MPH, CEO, Envoy Integrated Health; Non-Invasive Cardiologist, Alaska Heart and Vascular Institute
  • Nicole Bradberry, Chief Executive Officer; ValueH Network, Florida Association of ACOs, Texas Association of ACOs

Hartford (Conn.) 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. 24, The Economist published an editorial…

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 tension between surgeons seeking greater flexibility and hospitals with financial…

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 weight or uncontrolled diabetes are now reaching the BMI thresholds and metabolic benchmarks…

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