Spine

New York Spine Specialists, the practice of Sebastian Lattuga, MD, has opened a new, state-of-the-art facility in Manhattan, according to a New York Spinal Specialists news release.

Here are five statistics for spine surgeons on new employment contracts, according to data from "2011 Orthopedic Recruiting & Trends Starting Salary Overview" from Orthopedic Recruiting Group.

Gunnar Andersson, MD, PhD, received the Henry Farfan Basic Science Award, according to a news release from Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush.

Rothman Institute in Philadelphia recently welcomed physical medicine and rehabilitation physician Natacha S. Falcon, DO, according to a practice news release.

John H. Peloza, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon, founder and medical director of the Center for Spine Care and founding physician partner of the Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery in Dallas, which was recently founded through a partnership between…

Bloomington, Minn.-based health insurer HealthPartners is changing the way it covers patients considering spine surgery, in an effort to decrease costs and increase efficacy, according to a Star Tribune report.

Founder and CEO of Business Dynamics Barbara Cataletto has been named to the coding task force for the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery, according to a Long Island Business News report.

Here are 20 spine and neurosurgeons on the move in 2011.

RSB Spine, a Cleveland-based spine device company, recently reported 46 percent sales increase for 2011 over 2010, according to an RSB Spine news release.

Spine recently named spine surgeons Scott Boden, MD, and Daryl Fourney, MD, reviewers of the year for completing the best reviews for the journal in 2011.