An international group of spine surgeons developed a classification system to quantify the invasiveness of degenerative lumbar spine procedures. Roger Härtl, MD, director of spinal surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine and neurosurgical director of Och Spine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical…
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Joint replacement has spent decades becoming more efficient. Patients who once stayed in the hospital for days can increasingly go home the same day or the next. Surgeons optimize medical risks before the procedure, coordinate care across specialties and continue…
Geneva, Ill.-based Fox Valley Orthopedics is expanding its physician team with two orthopedic surgeons specializing in joint replacement and upper-extremity care. Nicholas Pagani, MD, will begin seeing patients in early September as a hip and knee replacement surgeon. He joins…
Put 10 spine surgeons in a room with the same patient, Stephen Lockey, MD, said, and you may get 11 or 12 different answers. That variability has long been part of spine surgery. Imaging can show several abnormalities. Multiple operations…
Spine surgery has long come with a basic tradeoff: To see more anatomy, surgeons often have to expose more of it. Bayan Aghdasi, MD, believes augmented reality is beginning to break that relationship. After using AR guidance in nearly 200…
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Indianapolis-based Riley Children’s Health opened a new Orthopedics and Sports Medicine suite at IU Health Fishers (Ind.), expanding pediatric orthopedic services and adding same-day walk-in care. The location offers walk-in care from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday…
The Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences received a $1 million gift from Brenda Gullett and Robert Gullett Jr., MD, to benefit the UAMS Health Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Hospital in Springdale, Ark. The hospital’s sports medicine clinic…
Amit Jain, MD, sees one of spine care’s workforce problems in his own clinic. Patients arrive to see a surgeon even when they do not need surgery. Some could have been evaluated first by physiatry, pain management, physical therapy or…
CMS’ newest specialty payment model is putting a new question in front of independent spine practices: How much infrastructure will it take to remain competitive under value-based Medicare? Beginning Jan. 1, 2027, the Ambulatory Specialty Model will require qualifying physicians…
Orthopedic care is approaching a potential access problem as demand rises while the number of surgeons available to treat patients declines. At the same time, reimbursement pressure, growing administrative burdens and payer restrictions are making some practices reconsider which patients…