Spine surgery complications do not necessarily surface in the operating room. The conditions for breakdown are laid long before a patient ever reaches the table. From the outside, the work looks ...

Laser Spine Institute, based in Tampa, Fla., has launched two new surgical procedures to meet the needs of patients with back pain: RegenaDISC® and Minimally Invasive Stabilization. The two procedures ...

Physicians are paid less today for many common spine procedures than they were in 2000, according to the blog of Jeffrey Binder, president and CEO of Biomet, which makes spine surgery devices. In that ...

Ascension’s Dell Children’s Medical Center North Campus is changing the future of medical procedures by becoming the first pediatric hospital in the world to provide robotic spine surgeries. “The ...

A cervical foraminotomy is a procedure that decompresses a nerve in the neck. A spine surgeon removes bone or disc pieces that are pressing on the nerves that go from your neck to your arm. The ...

Christopher Shaffrey, MD, has seen spine care evolve through rapid innovation.  But as outcomes and complication rates face greater scrutiny, the chief of the spine division at Durham, N.C.-based Duke ...

A neurosurgeon at Northwell’s Staten Island University Hospital has performed Staten Island’s first Total Posterior Spine System procedure, according to a recent announcement. The procedure is an ...

Virtua Health, the largest health system in southern New Jersey, has introduced a significant advancement in spine surgery.

More than 90% of hospitals are overusing risky back surgeries that don't help patients with age-related pain. One unnecessary procedure happens every eight minutes, and complication rates reach up to ...

BPCI Advanced model reduced spending for outpatient spine surgeries, despite increased total payments over time. Hospitals receive incentives for providing quality care within a target price, ...