Spine surgery is advancing quickly, but many of the pressures making surgeons uneasy have little to do with what happens in the operating room. Across recent Becker’s conversations, surgeons have pointed to reimbursement pressure, increasingly complex prior authorization, shrinking access…
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Peter Kan, MD, will serve as president of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery for 2026 to 2027. Dr. Kan is an endovascular neurosurgeon and serves as professor and Robert L. Moody Sr. Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the…
Carlsmed plans to launch its corra cervical platform in the fourth quarter as it expands its personalized spine-surgery business, according to an Aug. 12 MarketBeat report. The company expects cervical procedures to contribute a low double-digit percentage of full-year revenue…
Risk adjustment has traditionally lived downstream of the patient visit, reconstructed after the fact through chart review, queries and coding. This session explores what changes when documentation integrity becomes part of the clinical conversation itself, not a separate process layered…
Aug 19, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Eric Bricker, MD, Internal Medicine Physician and former Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Compass Professional Health Services
- Andrew Miner, MD, Chief Health Informatics Officer, Inova Health
- Padmanabhan Premkumar, MD, System Senior Vice President and President, Hartford HealthCare Medical Group and CEO of Integrated Care Partners
Thomas Bernasek, MD, a founding member of Tampa-based Florida Orthopaedic Institute, died Aug. 9. Dr. Bernasek was an orthopedic surgeon specializing in hip and knee replacement. He came to Tampa in 1987 and spent nearly four decades advancing patient care,…
Vinod Dasa, MD, used to send knee replacement patients home with prescriptions for dozens, sometimes more than 100, opioid pills. At the time, it did not feel unusual. Total knee replacement hurt. Patients expected narcotics. Surgeons prescribed them. “I didn’t…
Roughly 70 percent of medical decisions depend on lab results but lab spending remains one of the least scrutinized lines in a health plan’s budget. That blind spot is getting more expensive. Routine testing spend is climbing faster than the…
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New York City-based Mount Sinai neurosurgeon Christopher Kellner, MD, was elected chair of the joint American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons Cerebrovascular Section. Dr. Kellner’s one-year term began after the Society for Neurointerventional Surgeons and Cerebrovascular Section Joint…
VB Spine acquired exclusive rights to Augmedics’ CT-to-fluoroscopy technology for spine applications and will integrate the technology into its xvision Spine System platform. The CT-Fluoro technology uses a patient’s preoperative CT scan with fluoroscopic images from a standard 2D C-arm…
Physicians have been clear that prior authorization delays and denials remain one of the most persistent operational headaches in practice. That headache, surgeons say, drags out surgical scheduling, adds administrative burden and, in some cases, drives patients out of treatment…