Spine

The Joint Commission has awarded Lewes, Del.-based Beebe Healthcare with disease-specific certification for its spine surgery program, according to the Cape Gazette report.

A group of researchers examined the impact of cervical spine diagnoses on professional football players and published their results in an issue of Spine.

  Four spine surgeons patient volume growth and where it will come from in the future.

Here are seven things for spinal surgeons to know for May 22, 2014.

The Scoliosis Research Society announced 2014 awards and scholarships.

Safdar N. Khan, MD, Chief of the Division of Spine Surgery at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, began researching cytokines when he was a resident.

  William Weigel, MD, has joined Spokane, Wash.-based Northwest Orthopaedic Specialists, according to a report by The Spokesman-Review.

  Spine & Neuro Center in Huntsville, Ala., recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, according to AL.com report.

A group of researchers performed a retrospective cohort analysis of patients who underwent spinal surgery for lumbar stenosis between 2002 and 2009 in the United States to examine outcomes and costs. The research was published in Spine.

The documentation insurance companies demand includes data about non-surgical treatment — previously compiled by primary care physicians or non-operative specialists — as well as the appropriate diagnostic and imaging studies.