Spine

Marc Cohen, MD, is a spine surgeon practicing in New Jersey with more than 20 years of experience in spinal health. He has trained extensively in lumbar endoscopic spine surgery and performed more than 1,000 procedures using that technology. Here,…

Before jumping on the hospital employment bandwagon, spine surgeons must consider all aspects of the contract before signing on the bottom line. If the conditions are right, spine surgeons could benefit from hospital employment; however, in many occasions they can…

The North American Spine Society's membership reached 8,000 after neurosurgeon Douglas Fox, MD, joined the organization.

Here are five steps spine surgeons can take to prepare for accountable care organizations, bundled payments and other new payment models in the future.

Kaveh Khajavi, MD, a spine surgeon with Georgia Spine & Neurosurgery Center discusses the most important areas of spinal research in the future and how more spine surgeons can become involved.

Neurosurgeon Melissa Macias, MD, has joined Rockford, Ill.-based SwedishAmerican Health System, according to the Rockford Record.

This article is written by Daniel Goldberg, CEO of Gold Medical Marketing.With each passing year the medical landscape is plagued with more and more landmines. Declining reimbursements, bundled payments, the looming implementation of Obamacare and the constant rule changes of…

William Taylor, MD, vice chairman of academic affairs and neurosurgeon at UC San Diego Health System, discusses the biggest coverage challenges for spine surgery heading into 2013. Dr. Taylor is also a past president of the Society of Minimally Invasive…

While nearly half of patients with a spine MRI were seen in surgical consultations, only 6.5 percent underwent spine surgery within three years, according to a study in the January issue of Spine.

Robotic technology is becoming more common in medicine and Mazor Robotics has introduced the technology to spine surgery in the United States.