Spine

Spine surgeon researchers recently published a study about Clostridium difficile colitis in patients who undergo lumbar spine surgery in the journal Spine.

  Ara Deukmedjian, MD, CEO, Medical Director, Deuk Spine Institute, Melbourne, Fla., discusses why improving reimbursement at spine surgery practices is such a challenge.

    Here are eight things for spinal surgeons to know for Sept. 4, 2014.

  Tampa, Fla.-based Laser Spine Institute is building headquarters and an ambulatory surgery center, which will cost approximately $56 million, in Tampa, according to a Tampa Bay Business Journal report.

A study published in Spine examines how surgeon specialty impacts elective spine surgery outcomes.

Alpesh A. Patel, MD, has been awarded the 2015 American Orthopaedic Association's American-British-Canadian Traveling Fellowship.

Brijesh P. Mehta, MD, was named medical director of stroke and neurocritical care at Hollywood, Fla.-based Memorial Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Healthcare System.

Southlake-based Spine Team Texas received LIVING magazine's annual Reader's Choice 'Best of 2014' award, which is based on readers' nominations of their preferred providers.

Neurosurgeon Michael Haglund, MD, PhD, of Duke University in Durham, N.C., was among a group of surgeons who traveled to Uganda to participate in "surgery camp," which trained local physicians, according to a JDNews report.

A spine device manufacturer and Indiana-based surgeon were ordered to pay $2.6 million to the United States to settle illegal kickback allegations.