Spine

CMS plans to cut the conversion factor for the physician fee schedule by 3.4% in the 2024 calendar year, but how will that affect spine and orthopedic surgeons?

New York City-based Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital has become the first in the state to successfully implant a motion-sparing device as an alternative to lumbar spine fusions. 

Augmedics has treated its 5,000th patient using its Xvision spine system, the first augmented reality system to gain FDA approval for surgery. 

BoulderCentre for Orthopedics & Spine in Colorado has added Robert Harper, MD, to its staff.

Scott Luhmann, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, completed the first pediatric deformity case with the VisAR augmented reality system.

Philip Louie, MD, of Seattle-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, was named co-program chair of the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, according to a Dec. 20 LinkedIn post. 

Two spine surgeons share their New Years resolutions for 2024.

This year, Becker's reported on 11 spine and orthopedic surgeons who died this year including founders, leaders and physicians respected by colleagues and patients.

Awake spine surgery has slowly grown since the beginning of 2022. Here are five milestones to know:

Here are 10 athletes undergoing spine surgery that Becker's has reported on in 2023: