Spine

Spine surgeons are successfully transitioning more complex procedures to the outpatient setting, but face obstacles from payers despite the move to value-based care.

Three neurosurgeons — Rafe Sales, MD, Mark McLaughlin, MD, and Vivek Deshmukh, MD — discuss their methods for avoiding burnout.

Here are six hospitals expanding spine and neurosurgeon programs.

Eighty-seven former patients and family members have sued Centennial, Colo.-based Centura Health over a 2017 infection outbreak at its Porter Adventist Hospital related to orthopedic and spine surgical instruments, according to a Fox 31 Denver report.

A team of Harvard researchers used machine learning to predict which patients undergoing a procedure for lower back pain should be observed for opioid dependence, reports AI in Healthcare.

Here are seven spine and neurosurgeons making the news.

Three spine surgeons weigh in what patient characteristics they consider important when deciding whether to perform a surgery in the outpatient setting.

Two neurosurgeons, Praveen Mummaneni, MD, and Ciro Randazzo, MD, discuss the future of bundled payments in spine.

A group of neurosurgeons led by OhioHealth's Victor Awuor, MD, are traveling to Kenya to treat patients for neurosurgical conditions, reports 10TV.

A new study published in The Spine Journal examines machine learning algorithms for predicting the risk of prolonged opioid use after lumbar disc herniation surgery.