Author: Sophie Eydis

More spine surgeons are questioning whether insurance contracts still make financial sense as reimbursement declines, administrative burdens grow and practice costs continue to climb. Three surgeons discuss the math behind going out of network, and what ultimately tips the decision.…

Spine surgery is being reshaped less by any single technology than by a collision of forces: a federal payment system rewriting where operations happen, payers tightening what they will cover and a specialty under growing pressure to prove its results. …

Spine and orthopedic malpractice cases produced jury awards and settlements ranging from $750,000 to $27 million over the past year. Here are three cases Becker’s reported on, ordered by amount. Editor’s note: This list is not exhaustive and includes only…

Advances in minimally invasive techniques, robotic technology, motion-preserving procedures and complex spinal reconstruction are transforming spine care. Across the country, orthopedic spine surgeons are driving those advances by improving patient outcomes, advancing clinical research and training the next generation of…

Regentis Biomaterials is targeting an estimated $3 billion U.S. cartilage repair market with GelrinC, an investigational hydrogel-based implant designed to regenerate damaged knee cartilage through a single-step procedure. GelrinC is designed as an off-the-shelf cartilage repair platform that can be…

A patient with chronic back pain who lands in the wrong office at the wrong moment can walk out scheduled for a surgery they never needed. Designing that failure mode out of the system is the premise behind the spine…

SurGenTec received FDA 510(k) clearance for its ION-L navigation instruments for use with the company’s ION-L lumbar facet fixation system. The instruments are designed to work with Medtronic’s StealthStation navigation platform during posterior lumbar facet fusion procedures. The navigation instruments…

Patient-reported outcomes were once a research exercise, the kind of data a spine program collected for a registry or a journal submission and rarely looked at again. That era is over. PROMs now sit directly on the line between a…

Orthopedic surgery is the first medical specialty to average more than $600,000 in annual pay, according to Medscape’s “Physician Compensation Report 2026.“ The report is based on responses from 5,916 physicians surveyed from Sept. 5 to Dec. 17, 2025. Five…

An early multicenter study evaluated Eminent Spine’s FDA 510(k)-cleared 3D-printed titanium pedicle screw in 33 patients undergoing spinal procedures. The study included patients treated from July 2025 to the present for conditions including loose pedicle screws, pseudoarthrosis, cervical-thoracic kyphosis, thoraco-lumbar…