Spine

Spine surgery is being reshaped less by any single technology than by a collision of forces: a federal payment system rewriting where operations happen, payers tightening what they will cover and a specialty under growing pressure to prove its results. …

When health systems and organizations push for new ways to grow revenue — through opening new locations, launching additional service lines or scheduling more visits — surgeons can push back.  Management can earn surgeon buy-in through a number of different…

Spine and orthopedic malpractice cases produced jury awards and settlements ranging from $750,000 to $27 million over the past year. Here are three cases Becker’s reported on, ordered by amount. Editor’s note: This list is not exhaustive and includes only…

Advances in minimally invasive techniques, robotic technology, motion-preserving procedures and complex spinal reconstruction are transforming spine care. Across the country, orthopedic spine surgeons are driving those advances by improving patient outcomes, advancing clinical research and training the next generation of…

L&K Spine recently announced the successful completion of the first global four-level cervical reconstruction using its newly launched BluEx-C Cervical Expandable Cage. The landmark procedure was performed on July 20 by Christopher Chittum, MD, a neurosurgeon at Spartanburg Medical Center…

A patient with chronic back pain who lands in the wrong office at the wrong moment can walk out scheduled for a surgery they never needed. Designing that failure mode out of the system is the premise behind the spine…

Patient-reported outcomes were once a research exercise, the kind of data a spine program collected for a registry or a journal submission and rarely looked at again. That era is over. PROMs now sit directly on the line between a…

An early multicenter study evaluated Eminent Spine’s FDA 510(k)-cleared 3D-printed titanium pedicle screw in 33 patients undergoing spinal procedures. The study included patients treated from July 2025 to the present for conditions including loose pedicle screws, pseudoarthrosis, cervical-thoracic kyphosis, thoraco-lumbar…

The first lumbar artificial disc replacement at DISC’s newest surgery center did not feel like a first to Philip Saville, MD. He had already performed the procedure in outpatient settings. The operation itself was familiar. What mattered was everything built…

Boston Scientific and Stryker have reached an agreement in principle to settle a patent dispute involving technology used in basivertebral nerve ablation procedures for chronic vertebrogenic low back pain, according to new court documents.  The two medtech companies notified the…