Spine

Here are nine things to know about specialist compensation within the past year.

Cleveland Clinic Florida in Weston is hiring a neurosurgeon with a special interest in spine surgery, according to The New England Journal of Medicine Career Center.

Physicians and staff at Naples (Fla.) Community Hospital unanimously voted "no confidence" in CEO Allen Weiss, according to NBC 2.

Here are 10 spine surgeon leaders to know.

Three spine surgeons discuss how they deal with rising deductibles and increased patient financial responsibility.

Scott Boden, MD, director of Atlanta-based Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center and chair of the department of orthopedic surgery at Emory University School of Medicine spent years on the forefront of spine care and innovation.

Alok Sharan, MD, co-director of Yonkers, N.Y.-based Westmed Spine Center has been successful in building a spine practice and performing awake spinal fusions.

Many primary lumbar fusion patients that visit the emergency department within 30 days postoperatively do not require hospitalization, according to a study in Clinical Spine Surgery.

Bradenton, Fla.-based Coastal Orthopedics' Douglas Constant, MD, is performing minimally invasive indirect decompression surgery on spinal stenosis patients.

While some hospitals and physicians have adopted stances of limiting prescription opioids in light of the opioid epidemic, these actions have worsened the epidemic, according to a guest column spine surgeon David Hanscom, MD, wrote in Pain News Network.