At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 26, Carolyn Neumann, CPC, senior manager of coding and coverage access for Specialty Healthcare Advisers, shared the 10 biggest reimbursement challenges facing ASCs that do minimally invasive spine…
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Zimmer Spine launched its newest line of minimally invasive instruments for exposure, retraction, decompression and disc preparation with lumbar fusion and microdiscectomy procedures.
Smith & Nephew appointed Roberto Quarta as a non-executive director and chairman elect.
The North American Spine Society Executive Committee has penned a letter to the Washington Post in response to a story about the necessity of spinal fusions.
As physicians begin to work on achieving Stage 2 Meaningful Use and make their practices more accessible and efficient for patients, they are considering online patient portals as a viable option for their practices, according to an AAOS Now report.
A study published in a recent issue of Spine examines the cost-effectiveness of initiating rehabilitation for spine patients six weeks after surgery instead of the customary 12 weeks.
Pediatric orthopedic surgeon Jaclyn Hill, MD, has joined the surgical team at Texas Children's Hospital West Campus in Houston.
Korsh Jafarnia, MD, board-certified orthopedic hand surgeon of Houston Methodist Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, has joined the Weill Cornell Medical College faculty as an assistant professor of clinical orthopedic surgery.
President Barack Obama has revised his promise to Americans that they could keep their old health plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a report from The Hill.
Harvinder S. Sandhu, MD, is an associate attending orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery and an assistant scientist in the hospital's research division. He previously served as chief of the spinal surgery service at UCLA Medical Center in Los…