Spine

The kickback trial involving Forest Park Medical Center owners and physicians ended yesterday with seven defendants receiving convictions and one acquittal, according to a report in the Dallas Business Journal.

Before entering bundled payment agreements, providers should understand costs associated with certain patient, hospital and procedure characteristics, according to a study published on Medscape.

This article is a portion of a book titled "Challenges, Risks and Opportunities in Today's Spine World " edited by Stephen Hochschuler, MD, Frank Phillips, MD, and Richard Fessler, MD. You can find links to the previous chapters at the end…

  Neurosurgeon Ha Son Nguyen, MD, joined the Thousand Oaks-based California Institute of Neuroscience.

There are more than 1 million instrumented spinal procedures performed in the U.S. annually, according to an iData Research report.

West Orange, N.J.-based Atlantic Spine Center introduced telemedicine to help patients manage chronic back pain.

Five spine surgeons share best practices for sharpening one's skill set and remaining on the cutting-edge of spine care.

Reginald Davis, MD, the former director of clinical research at Laser Spine Institute, joined The BioSpine Institute, both in Tampa.

Spinal manipulation is on-par with traditional back pain therapies, according to research reported by Reuters Health News.

The number of opioids transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion patients take before and during a hospital stay may be a predictor of long-term opioid abuse, Spinal News International reports.