Summerville (S.C.) Medical Center launched a minimally invasive spine surgery program in April, The Berkeley Independent reported June 16.
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Private equity has the potential to help keep spine practices independent, but it doesn't come without risk, according to Kornelis Poelstra, MD, PhD, of the Robotic Spine Institute of Silicon Valley in Los Gatos, Calif.
U.S. News & World Report released its 2020-21 Best Children's Hospitals for Orthopedics rankings on June 15.
A 500-pound man with debilitating back pain was turned away from four spine surgeons in Ohio before Minnesota neurosurgeon Hamid Abbasi, MD, PhD, agreed to take on the case with a unique approach.
John Berry-Candelario, MD, was hired at Novant Health Spine Specialists - Ballantyne in Charlotte, N.C., the health system said June 15.
Emily Putney, DO, specializes in a variety of spine conditions from cervical and lumbar stenosis to scoliosis and disc herniation at Coastal Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Center in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
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Ortho Regenerative Technologies named Howard Walthall and Tim Cunningham to its board of directors, the company said June 15.
State officials permanently banned Evangelos Megariotis, MD, former owner and operator of Clifton (N.J.) Orthopedic Associates, from practicing or prescribing drugs in New Jersey, according to the Garfield-Lodi Daily Voice reported.
Although Philadelphia-based Rothman Orthopaedics has eliminated bundled payments, its president, Alexander Vaccaro, MD, PhD, said using them is still worth it for some practices.