Spine

Orthopedic practices leave revenue on the table in ways that are easy to overlook: an idle OR, a missed call, a late-night note, a denial waiting in the rework queue. Each looks like a routine operational snag on its own,…

Laminoplasty — a cervical spine procedure that expands the spinal canal and relieves cord compression without fusing any vertebrae — is motion-preserving, well-established in Asia and Europe and supported by long-term outcomes data, Siamak Yasmeh, MD, a spine surgeon at…

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons applauded the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health for advancing the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act, bipartisan legislation intended to reform prior authorization in Medicare Advantage. The bill would establish…

West Palm Beach, Fla.-based DISC Surgery Center at Palm Beach opened June 25 and is providing outpatient spine, orthopedic and interventional pain procedures.  Jason Cuéllar, MD, PhD, founding surgeon and medical director of the center, performed the first procedure that…

When Mike Verdon, MD, a neurosurgeon in Dayton, Ohio, first heard about the Ambulatory Specialty Model, his reaction was alarm — not for himself, but for the colleagues he looked up on the CMS participant list. “I looked, I’m not…

Spine surgery has never been more sophisticated. Robotic navigation has improved precision. Endoscopic procedures have made operations less invasive. New lateral approaches continue to expand what surgeons can treat through smaller incisions. Juan Uribe, MD, chief of the division of…

As another class of residents and fellows prepares to enter independent practice, much of the conversation centers on technical readiness and clinical decision-making. Yet, some of the most significant challenges of attending life receive far less attention. The transition from…

Paul Slosar, MD, spent 28 years as a spine surgeon in the San Francisco Bay Area and nearly as long working the margins of the device industry, doing due diligence, serving as chief medical officer at Titan Spine, watching venture…

The case against building an endoscopic spine program usually comes down to arithmetic. The disposable instruments cost more per case than open surgery. And on paper, every patient steered toward a minimally invasive decompression is a patient who did not…

The most advanced thing in spine care by 2028 may not be a robot, a navigation rig or a pair of augmented-reality glasses. According to four surgeons who spoke on a panel at Becker’s Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC…