Spine
In the realm of spinal fusion surgery, the quest for faster, safer, and more reliable bone formation has led to…
Spine surgery has long come with a basic tradeoff: To see more anatomy, surgeons often have to expose more of it. Bayan Aghdasi, MD, believes augmented reality is beginning to break that relationship. After using AR guidance in nearly 200…
Farzin Kabaei, MD, an orthopedic surgeon, did four joint replacements one week this spring. A Medicare case paid him $800 to $900. Two Blue Shield cases paid about $1,100 each. The fourth patient was covered by an insurer with which…
New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System will serve as the official healthcare partner of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships for a 14th consecutive year, providing orthopedics, sports medicine, emergency medicine, musculoskeletal radiology and other services to players. Alexis Colvin,…
Researchers at New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System found patients with Lenke Type 5 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis who underwent posterior spinal fusion with posterior column osteotomies had similar overall correction to patients who underwent posterior spinal fusion without PCOs. …
Amit Jain, MD, sees one of spine care’s workforce problems in his own clinic. Patients arrive to see a surgeon even when they do not need surgery. Some could have been evaluated first by physiatry, pain management, physical therapy or…
CMS’ newest specialty payment model is putting a new question in front of independent spine practices: How much infrastructure will it take to remain competitive under value-based Medicare? Beginning Jan. 1, 2027, the Ambulatory Specialty Model will require qualifying physicians…
CMS has eliminated the pathway that allowed medical devicemakers to use FDA Breakthrough Device status to qualify for Medicare’s New Technology Add-on Payment program. And according to Jeffrey Zigler, SI-Bone’s senior vice president of market access and reimbursement, that development…
Todd Lanman, MD, a spinal neurosurgeon at Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Lanman Spinal Neurosurgery, returned to operating five days after undergoing his 12th spine surgery and eighth lumbar procedure. Joel Beckett, MD, and Luke Macyszyn, MD, performed the July 30 procedure…
Bloomington, Minn.-based Midwest Spine and Brain Institute, a system of 13 specialty care clinics across Minnesota and Wisconsin, has disclosed a data breach tied to unauthorized access at one of its third-party vendors, 3C Care Systems LLC, a healthcare IT…
Mayfield Brain & Spine has added neurosurgeons Dr. Shahed Elhamdani, MD, and Dr. Daniel Kreatsoulas, MD, to the practice. They are seeing patients in Crestview Hills, Ky. The two physicians will perform surgeries at St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Edgewood, Ky.,…