Spine

Four spine surgeons discuss how they expect negotiations with commercial payers to go this year:

Kern Singh, MD, lauded the benefits of endoscopic spine surgery, which he typically performs as an awake outpatient procedure at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago.

Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion is more cost effective than the open procedure, according to a study published in The Spine Journal on Jan. 22.

Former President Donald Trump provided a full pardon to Faustino Bernadett, MD, who was sentenced to 15 months in prison for his role in an illegal kickback scheme that steered spine surgeries to a hospital he had owned, NBC News…

Fourteen insights on bundled payments in spine, including CMS changes in 2021 and thoughts from five prominent surgeons:

Neurosurgeon John Spitalieri, DO, has opened the Arizona Neurosurgery & Spine Center in Prescott, Ariz., according to a Jan. 22 news release.

Here are the most-read articles from Becker's Spine Review during the week of Jan. 18-22:

From predictions on robotics in spine surgery to leadership named in New York, here are three spine surgeons making headlines this week:

Neurosurgeon John Golfinos, MD, is leading a new research project at NYU Grossman School of Medicine examining an imaging and navigation system for spine and neurosurgery.

An attorney for Roger Jackson, MD, filed a patent infringement lawsuit Jan. 19 against NuVasive, Bloomberg Law reports.