George Rappard, MD, founder of the Los Angeles Minimally Invasive Spine Institute, is serving as the principal investigator of a clinical trial studying the Device for Intervertebral Assisted Motion as a minimally invasive alternative for back pain treatment.
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BlueCross BlueShield has named Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., a Blue Distinction Center in the areas of spine surgery and knee and hip replacement, according to an Argus Leader report.
Here are 18 spine surgeons and specialists that were recently appointed to prestigious positions or achieved notable accomplishments.
The HHS Office of Inspector General has issued a special fraud alert focused on specific attributes of physician-owned distributorships the agency believes "produce substantial fraud and abuse risk and pose dangers to patient safety."
Westside Surgical Hospital in Houston, a multispecialty physican-owend hospital, has acquired the Mazor Robotics Renaissance system, one of seven systems being used in Texas, according to a Mazor Robotics news release.
Jeffrey Carlson, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon and the president and managing partner of Orthopaedic and Spine Center, in Newport News, Va. He is also the chief of surgery at Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News.
A. Nick Shamie, MD, a spine surgeon with the UCLA Health System, discusses how the sequester and looming budget cuts will impact spine surgeons in the future.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Board of Directors has approved its first appropriate use criteria, according to an AAOS news release.
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton (Mass.) announced it will open phase one of its orthopedic center Monday, according to a Boston report.
A research letter, published online in JAMA Internal Medicine, states that in a study of 1,000 requests for MRIs of the lumbar spine, nearly half were ordered for indications considered inappropriate or of uncertain value, according to a Medscape Today…