Spine

The Concierge Medicine Research Collective released new data on concierge medicine in the U.S., based on surveys and polls from physicians between 2009 and 2012.

Frisco Spine has welcomed Patrick Cindrich, MD, board-certified neurosurgeon, and opened a new office location in Denison, Texas.

Lawrence Chin, MD, board-certified neurosurgeon, has established a practice in Watertown, N.Y., according to a wwnytv.com report.

Retirement might be far away or right around the corner, but all spine surgeons should have a retirement plan and money put away annually for their golden years. How much to put away and where to put it really depends…

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.