Spine

Kenneth Pettine, MD, a spine surgeon in Loveland, Colo., and co-founder of the Society for Ambulatory Spine Surgery, discusses the inaugural meeting of SASS last November in Chicago.

Mary LeGrand, RN, MA, CCS-P, CPC, senior consultant with KarenZupko & Associates, recently outlined steps to make sure spinal injection are coded accurately in an AAOS Now report.

Members of the FC Dallas soccer team with back pain might be breathing collective sighs of relief, thanks to a recent collaboration.

Joseph C. Maroon, MD, professor and vice chair of the department of neurological surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine was recently honored by Indiana University with the Distinguished Alumni Service Award.

Here are 20 spine surgeons involved with physician-owned hospitals around the country.

After ousting spinal services in 2008, St. Joseph Health Center in Trumbull County, Ohio – near Youngstown – once again boasts a full line of spinal treatment.

Our current reimbursement model assumes all physicians perform equal treatment with the same outcomes because payors reimburse at the same level regardless of the quality of care. However, as spine surgeons know, not every surgeon has the same level of…

North American Spine Society has supported the reclassification petition by the Orthopedic Surgical Manufacturers' Association to classify the pedicle and lateral mass screws for surgical spine use.

Here are 16 new statistics on orthopedic case revenue, based on data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011.

This article is written by Rita E. Numerof, Ph.D., and Stephen Rothenberg, J.D., of Numerof & Associates, Inc.Over the past 15 years, the number of spinal fusion surgeries has drastically increased, but unfortunately, the rate of success hasn't been commensurate…