Spine

The health insurance exchange websites were officially opened on Oct. 1, but since then many have closed or been temporarily shut down as the government works to fix glitches in the HealthCare.gov website.

Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network has acquired the assets of Westfield Hospital in Allentown and intends on converting the facility into an orthopedic center with a focus on total joint replacements and spine surgery, according to a Lehigh Valley…

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 25, Robert Bray, Jr., MD, neurological spine surgeon, and Karen Reiter, COO of DISC Sports and Spine Center in Newport Beach and Beverly Hills, Calif., discussed high-acuity spine…

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 26, Carolyn Neumann, CPC, senior manager of coding and coverage access for Specialty Healthcare Advisers, shared the 10 biggest reimbursement challenges facing ASCs that do minimally invasive spine…

The North American Spine Society Executive Committee has penned a letter to the Washington Post in response to a story about the necessity of spinal fusions.

A study published in a recent issue of Spine examines the cost-effectiveness of initiating rehabilitation for spine patients six weeks after surgery instead of the customary 12 weeks.

A study published in the September 2013 issue of Spine Deformity, researchers examined the current rate of postoperative surgical site infections in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis cases.

Geisinger Health System Neurosciences Institute announced it will host a comparative effectiveness research conference in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14.

Because spine surgery can produce smoke-filled operating rooms, surgeons need to unite with their operating room teams to petition, if not demand, that administrators develop policy that supports efficient smoke evacuation.

Alan Moskowitz, MD, a spine surgeon practicing with Kansas Orthopaedic Center in Wichita, will travel to Peru to provide medical care to under-served populations, according to a Wichita Business Journal report.