Practice Management

While still higher than pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels, telemedicine visits have begun to steadily decline across the U.S. since peaking in mid-April, according to a June 25 Commonwealth Fund report.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the strengths of Canada's health system, former Cigna executive Wendell Potter said in an interview with NPR.

Here are 19 spine facilities that opened or will open this year:

Manhattan (Kan.) Surgical Hospital is now offering spine and neurosurgery thanks to the addition of two surgeons, The Mercury reports.

OrthoNow in Doral, Fla., has seen strong demand since it reopened and is now operating 12-hour days, the South Florida Business Journal reports.

More patients are going to clinicians but outpatient volumes are still 40 percent below what they were before COVID-19, according to a study published in The Commonwealth Fund.

The number of Americans delaying medical care because of the pandemic ranges from roughly 31 percent in Delaware to 51 percent in Maine, according to a report from ValuePenguin, a consumer spending resource owned by LendingTree.

The U.S. could face a shortage of between 54,100 and 139,000 physicians by 2033, according to new data from the Association of American Medical Colleges. The estimate is higher than AAMC's 2019 report, which projected a shortage of up to 121,900 physicians…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott halted elective surgeries June 25 in four of Texas' largest counties to preserve bed capacity at hospitals as COVID-19 numbers continue to surge in the state, local NBC affiliate KXAN reports.

Here is a list of ambulatory surgery centers that include minimally invasive spine surgery.