Spine

At the North American Spine Society's 30th Annual Meeting held in Chicago, experts discussed the benefits of utilizing a multimodal model in pain management in a symposium titled "Recent Advances in Managing Postoperative Pain Without Opioids."

A study published in The Spine Journal examines adjacent segment disease in patients who undergo cervical disc arthroplasty.

Elite Spine Centers, a specialty practice treating spinal complications, is expanding its reach in Houston.

Apple Valley, Minn.-based Summit Orthopedics and Bloomington, Minn.-based Institute for Low Back and Neck Care are planning to merge in January, according to a Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal report.

Between managing a practice, treating patients, conducting research and fulfilling committee responsibilities most surgeons don't have time to become involved with politics. But politicians are increasingly becoming involved with healthcare.

Orthopedic surgeon Steven Meier, MD, performed the first stem cell/platelet-rich plasma lumbar intradiscal injection in conjunction with La Peer Health Systems.

A new study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine examines outcomes for the Prestige cervical disc compared with anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued the 2016 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System recommendation for sacroiliac joint fusion, increasing the outpatient payment when billing the CPT 27279.

The Medical Tourism Association honored Daniel Kelly, MD, for excellence in international oncology.

Here are 10 spine surgeons and neurosurgeons who joined new practices or received promotions in the past month.