Spine

  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the 2015 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System Policy Changes and Payment Rates earlier this month, and they include 10 new spine procedures, according to an…

  Here are 11 spine and orthopedic practices that have expanded recently.

  Rockford (Ill.) Spine Center has expanded its physical therapy department with the addition of Kim Alexander, ATC, PT, MPT.

A study published in Spine examines nonoperative treatment for discogenic low back pain.

A study recently published in The Spine Journal examines how spinal sarcoma is treated and the impact of en bloc or intralesional resection on patient outcomes.

  Phoenix-based Sonoran Spine is relocating its Mesa, Ariz., office to Tempe, Ariz., in August.

  Marquette (Mich.) General Hospital Neurosurgeon Richard Rovin, MD, has been accepted into the Harvard Medical School Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program.

A study published in Spine examines the incidence of venous thromboembolic complications and pulmonary embolism in children undergoing spinal fusion surgery.

Researchers examined subject-based three-dimensional CT lumbar models for asymptomatic subjects to measure trends in foraminal height for the healthy spine and published their results in Spine.

Here are 20 spine-focused studies to know published within the past month.