Spine

Six spine and neurosurgeons outline common financial mistakes independent physicians can make.

Columbus, Ohio-based OrthoNeuro neurosurgeon Ying Chen, DO, performed a robotics-assisted two-level interbody fusion surgery at Mt. Carmel St. Ann's Hospital in Westerville, Ohio.

Physicians at Elliot Hospital in Manchester, N.H., are using spinal anesthesia in infants to avoid the risks and postoperative complications that can arise with general anesthesia.

The pediatric neurosurgery team at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., recently volunteered at a Ugandan hospital performing neurosurgical procedures with local residents.

Orthopedic spine surgeon Clint Hill, MD, died in a plane crash on Oct. 31, reports WCYB.

CMS removed six spinal procedures from the inpatient-only list in the CY 2020 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System Final Rule, issued Nov. 1.

The 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule includes a significant increase for minimally invasive SI joint fusions.

Here are six spine and neurosurgeons making headlines this week. 

Spine surgeon Nitin Khanna, MD, and Franciscan Health in Mishawaka, Ind., are participating in a study on the long-term prognosis for patients undergoing micro decompression surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis, The Times of Northwest Indiana reports

More than 99,000 people watched neurosurgeons Randall Graham, MD, and Bartley Mitchell, MD, remove a tumor from a patient's brain in an awake neurosurgical procedure on Oct. 29, reports The Dallas Morning News.