Spine

Healthcare employers and insurers are adopting or considering several tactics to limit payments for medical services, and since spine surgery can be a high-priced elective procedure, it could be a target going forward.

There isn't much data available today on cost-effectiveness for treating cervical degenerative disc disease, despite the many patients who undergo treatment every year.

Neurosurgeon Wade Ceola, MD, will be joining High Mountain Brain and Spinal Surgery Center at Valley View in Glenwood Springs, Colo., in January 2015, according to a Post Independent report.

Southern Tennessee Regional Health System in Winchester added John T. Friedland, MD, to the medical team of Southern Tennessee Orthopedics and Spine Center.

Is there enough strong evidence to prove minimal access spine surgery is more cost-effective than traditional open procedures?

An article recently published in Spine examining how microscope use impacts operating room time and outcomes for spine surgery.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis is the fourth clinical trial site for InVivo Therapeutics' IDE pilot study of the neuro-spinal scaffold in patients with acute spinal cord injury.

A completely revised edition of a guide to the management of pediatric neurosurgical disorders has been published by Thieme.

An article published in The Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques examines the incidence of pedicle breach after percutaneous screw fixation in the lumbar spine.

  It takes a dedicated and talented physician to focus on the spine specialty. Here, two spine surgeons discuss what about the field attracted them to it.