Spine

In the fall of 2013, Aetna considered changing its medical necessity policy for spine cages, but have revised their coverage decision after responses from spine organizations including the North American Spine Society, according to a NASS letter to its members.

  A study recently published in Spine examines the quality of life for patients undergoing minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion for the first year after surgery.

Here are five big payment issues in spine and pain patient care for this year.

Neurosurgical Associates of Abington (Pa.) announced the addition of Douglas W. Laske, MD, to its physician team.

Seattle-based The Polyclinic announced the addition of orthopedic spine surgeon Sean Keem, MD, to its medical staff.

  This is part three of a three-part series on spine surgeons discussing spinal revision surgery and efforts to avoid failed back surgery syndrome.

A new study published in The Spine Journal examined the outcomes for posterior cervical foraminotomy with and without microdiscectomy.

Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD, has been elected a member-at-large of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Executive Committee for a two-year term.

National Orthopaedic & Spine Alliance has selected the Explorys Platform and suite of cloud-based analytics solutions for its big data curation needs.

The use of pre-operative technology has become increasingly more common in the hospital and ambulatory surgery center industries because of the many benefits it has to offer.