Spine

Two surgeon-owned centers and three more spine practices to know:

Neurosurgeon Dave Atteberry, MD, is competing against two other physicians for a position as chief medical officer on the Yakima (Wash.) Health District Board of Health, according to YakimaHerald.com.

A lawsuit over Aetna Life Insurance's spine surgery coverage that was originally dismissed in 2019 will now go forward, according to a motion granted June 11.

Ernest Braxton, MD, has laid out three key advantages of awake spinal fusion, a procedure that he first performed in 2016, Summit Daily reported June 14.

An editorial in the Journal of Pain Research is supporting updated terminology for patients with chronic spine pain.

From new leadership appointments and partnerships, here's what major spine and orthopedic organizations did in the first half of 2021:

The implementation of sophisticated artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms has the potential to transform how spine surgeons approach preoperative clinic visits and guide decisions based on predictive models. 

Barth Green, MD, recently performed his final surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, calling time on a five-decade career as a neurosurgeon, CBS Miami reported May 28.

Here are 10 places hiring spine surgeons:

Value-based care has long been in the pipelines for spine surgery, but many surgeons believe they must push back against complex cases being included in value-based models such as bundled payments.