Spine

Healthcare is moving head-first toward shared-risk and shared-savings care delivery models. The most progressive organizations are testing accountable care organizations, bundled payments and narrow networks to reduce waste and improve outcomes. But can they work?

An article published in Spine examines the results of revision spine surgery after pedicle subtraction osteotomy for fixed sagittal imbalance with pseudarthrosis.

Southlake-based Spine Team Texas' Leonard Kibuule, MD, and Michael Garcia, MD, received D Magazine's Best Doctors designation for 2014.

Here are spine surgeons who made headlines this year for performing new procedures, winning awards, establishing new practices and furthering humanitarian work.

Here is an infographic from device company LDR Spine that details the history of cervical spine care from 1500 BCE through today.

Less invasive treatment options for cervical sympathetic chain schwannomas warrant consideration, given that the typical CSCS patient is young and asymptomatic, and the likelihood of persistent morbidity is high with standard surgical approaches, according to a study published in Otolaryngology…

  West Orange, N.J.-based Atlantic Spine Center, added Praveen Kadimcherla, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon, and Kaliq Chang, MD, an interventional pain management specialist, to its physician team.

Richard Francis, MD, added an online patient portal to his medical practice website, MySpineAssociates.com.

An article published in Spine examines two-year follow-up for surgical treatment for thoracolumbar fracture-dislocation.

Here are 10 spine and neurosurgeons in the news this week.