Spine

Five spine surgeons discuss five of the largest challenges they are grappling with and strategies for coping with the forces that are shaping the future of spine.

Here are seven things for spine surgeons to know for Thursday, June 6, 2013.

Richard Kube, MD, and Brian Gill, MD, discuss how their spine practices are affected by reimbursement issues.

Richard Wohns, MD, JD, MBA, founder of NeoSpine in the Puget Sound Region, Washington, discusses five areas where spine surgeon leaders must focus their guiding attention in the future.

In a recent study published in Spine, researchers conducted a prospective comparative study to determine if dysphagia occurs only as a complication of anterior neck dissection or if it occurs as a complication of any type of cervical surgery.

In a study recently published in Spine, researchers used Thomson Reuter's MarketScan database to compare lumbar spinal stenosis surgery outcomes in Medicaid patients to outcomes in commercial insurance patients.

The Spinal Research Foundation's We've Got Your Back Race for Spinal Health, hosted by Virginia Spine Institute in Reston, raised over $100,000.

Recently, the Medicare chargemaster data has been made publicly available for how much hospitals bill Medicare for top procedures. Rates varied widely and as media sources scramble to cover these variations, a new push toward price transparency is gaining momentum.…

William C. Watters III, MD, is the first vice president of the board of directors of the North American Spine Society, where he has been a member since 1987. He practices spine surgery at The Baylor College of Medicine and…

Steve Garfin, MD, board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon, has been granted the 2013 ISSLS Wilste Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by Nuvasive, according to a report by Spine.