Spine

Marriottsville, MD.-based Bon Secours has debuted the Bon Secours Spine Institute in Richmond, Va., a regional program that coordinates spine care across multiple specialties for patients with chronic back pain and other spinal conditions. The institute combines orthopedic spine care,…

Gregory Zipfel, MD, head of the Taylor Family Department of Neurosurgery at WashU Medicine in St. Louis, has been elected president of the Society of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Zipfel began his one-year term May 17 He has led the department…

Orthopedic practices leave revenue on the table in ways that are easy to overlook: an idle OR, a missed call, a late-night note, a denial waiting in the rework queue. Each looks like a routine operational snag on its own,…

Laminoplasty — a cervical spine procedure that expands the spinal canal and relieves cord compression without fusing any vertebrae — is motion-preserving, well-established in Asia and Europe and supported by long-term outcomes data, Siamak Yasmeh, MD, a spine surgeon at…

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons applauded the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health for advancing the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act, bipartisan legislation intended to reform prior authorization in Medicare Advantage. The bill would establish…

West Palm Beach, Fla.-based DISC Surgery Center at Palm Beach opened June 25 and is providing outpatient spine, orthopedic and interventional pain procedures.  Jason Cuéllar, MD, PhD, founding surgeon and medical director of the center, performed the first procedure that…

When Mike Verdon, MD, a neurosurgeon in Dayton, Ohio, first heard about the Ambulatory Specialty Model, his reaction was alarm — not for himself, but for the colleagues he looked up on the CMS participant list. “I looked, I’m not…

Spine surgery has never been more sophisticated. Robotic navigation has improved precision. Endoscopic procedures have made operations less invasive. New lateral approaches continue to expand what surgeons can treat through smaller incisions. Juan Uribe, MD, chief of the division of…

As another class of residents and fellows prepares to enter independent practice, much of the conversation centers on technical readiness and clinical decision-making. Yet, some of the most significant challenges of attending life receive far less attention. The transition from…

Paul Slosar, MD, spent 28 years as a spine surgeon in the San Francisco Bay Area and nearly as long working the margins of the device industry, doing due diligence, serving as chief medical officer at Titan Spine, watching venture…