Spine
In the realm of spinal fusion surgery, the quest for faster, safer, and more reliable bone formation has led to…
Gainesville-based University of Florida selected Duane Mitchell, MD, PhD, as the next director of the UF Health Cancer Institute, effective Sept. 21. Dr. Mitchell is the Phyllis Kottler Friedman Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and co-director of the Preston…
Oswego (N.Y.) Health Medical Practice has expanded its orthopedic services to include cervical spine surgery and treatment through its Center for Orthopedic Care. Its first cervical spine procedure was performed Sept. 2 at Oswego Hospital. Raman Dhawan, MD, an orthopedic…
Research related to secondary complications of spinal cord injury is underfunded despite patients identifying them as their most impactful daily burden, according to an op-ed published Sept. 4 in Spinal Cord. Spinal cord injury represents roughly 1% of U.S. disease…
Tampa, Fla., spine surgeon David Siambanes, DO, 59, and Dawn Stone, RN, 53, an advanced practice nurse, died the morning of Sept. 3 in a plane crash near Tampa Executive Airport. Dr. Siambanes and Ms. Stone worked for BayCare at…
Patient education may be one of the most underused tools for improving population health outcomes, according to Rita Roy, MD, executive director of the National Spine Health Foundation. “There are knowledge gaps on the patient education side and on the…
CMS’ shift toward greater financial risk is forcing spine surgeons to look beyond the operating room at the systems that could increasingly determine how they are paid. Three spine surgeons discussed why outcomes tracking, patient-reported data and practice infrastructure could…
CMS’ 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and ASC Payment System Final Rule marked the largest single-year expansion of outpatient-eligible surgery since at least 2018, surpassing, in one year, the 59 procedures Becker’s tracked as added to the ASC-covered list…
Insight Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience, a Michigan-based healthcare provider, terminated its lobbying contract with Khoury Johnson Leavitt LLC, effective June 30, according to a Sept. 1 filing with the Lobbying Disclosure Act database. The relationship between IINN and the…
Alexander Vaccaro, MD, PhD, MBA, has been performing complex spine surgery for 33 years. Today, he can do some operations in nearly half the time they once took him. That is what decades of experience are supposed to produce: A…
A standardized postoperative order set significantly reduced unnecessary paging between pediatric, orthopedic and nursing teams caring for children after spinal fusion surgery for idiopathic scoliosis, according to a Sept. 2 study published in Cureus. Researchers at Park Ridge, Ill.-based Advocate…