Spine

Ziya Gokaslan, MD, and fellows in the department of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore are translating the LevelCheck algorithm to clinical studies, according to a Johns Hopkins Medicine news release.

Providers today are focused on delivering high quality, low cost healthcare. In spine surgery, the debate over whether minimally invasive or open surgical techniques are more cost-effective depends on whether you're examining the initial episode of care or long-term costs,…

  In a retrospective study, surgeons examined the clinical outcome and risk of postoperative instability five years after microdecompression for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis using the interspinous approach and published their findings in Spine.

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons sent a letter to U.S. Congressmen Michael Burgess, MD, and Gene Green supporting the "Trauma System and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act."

University Hospital in Augusta, Ga., is planning a $9 million renovation to accommodate its growing spine surgery and orthopedics practices, according to a report by The Augusta Chronicle.

Here two spine surgeons discuss ways to deal with declining reimbursements in the healthcare industry.

Here are 25 spine surgeons who lead or have led state medical societies.

Spine surgeon researchers recently examined the rate of revision surgery after standalone lateral lumbar interbody fusion for lumbar stenosis and published their findings in Spine.

The North American Spine Society has announced support for the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014.

Avista Adventist Hospital in Louisville, Colo., plans to open a health center that will include neurosurgery services, according to a Boulder County Business Report.