Spine

Cervical spinal fusion surgery costs the most in Alaska and is the least expensive in Iowa, according to Sidecar Health's care calculator, which outlines the average cash price for every procedure, test and drug in the U.S. healthcare system. 

Spine surgeon Frank Cammisa, Jr., MD, and Brooklyn Nets and NY Liberty owners Joe and Clara Wu Tsai will be honored by New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery June 5.

Empirical Spine's Limiflex Dynamic Sagittal Tether was compared to transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion for degenerative spondylolisthesis in a recent study in The Open Orthopaedics Journal.

Here are more than 35 spine surgeons who offer artificial disc replacement.

Spine surgeons are facing a myriad of headwinds in 2023. Five of them shared the one thing the spine industry needs sooner than later.

Cervical disc replacement compared to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion did better at 10 years, according to a study in the International Journal of Spine Surgery.

Antigone Argyriou, MD, joined Spine Medicine and Surgery of Long Island (N.Y.), according to a May 30 LinkedIn post from Daniel Choi, MD.

A new bill passed by Texas lawmakers would let the state medical board crack down harder on physicians who could be dangerous to patients. 

Aclarion, which has brought on multiple spine and neurosurgeon advisers for its Nociscan platform, is partnering with The London Clinic and The London Spine Clinic in the U.K.

Peter Staats, MD, chief medical officer of Rockville, Md.-based National Spine and Pain Centers, has joined Neuralace Medical's advisory board.