In a KevinMD blog post, George F. Indest, III, president and managing partner of The Health Law Firm, shares tips for facing a Medicare audit.
The Latest
In a Forbes report, Robert Pearl, MD, CEO of The Permanente Medical Group and MidAtlantic Permanente Medical Group, discusses four major changes in the rules governing the healthcare industry as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The Food and Drug Administration granted 46 spine- and orthopedic-related device clearances in October.
There is no strong evidence to support spine surgery soon after a traumatic injury to prevent some of the secondary damage, mainly because the available study data cannot be easily compared, according to a study published in the Journal of…
Southcoast Rehabilitation Services, part of New Bedford, Mass.-based Southcoast Health System, has opened an outpatient clinic at the Southcoast Brain & Spine Center in Dartmouth, Mass., according to report by The Wareham Courier.
Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., announced the addition of Craig McAsey, MD, to its medical staff, according to a report by The Doings La Grange.
Over the past decade, orthopedic surgeons have safely moved many procedures from the hospital inpatient department to the ambulatory surgery center. The results for this transition — lower costs, lower infection rates, increased patient satisfaction — could not have been…
The Spine Health Foundation will give a presentation about spine surgery coverage at the 14th Annual International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery Conference in May 2014.
Robert A. Berenson, MD, and Deborah R. Kaye, MD, recently published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine on determining the value of physicians.
Spine surgeons at Hospital for Special Surgery evaluated neurological deficits after lateral lumbar interbody fusion for a new study published in Spine.