Nicholas Grosso, MD, has watched Medicare pay for orthopedic surgeons erode for most of his private practice career. Now, he said, independent practices are running out of ways to absorb it. “It’s ...

The American Society of Pain and Neuroscience on Oct. 2 called for a national minimally invasive spine credential that ties a physician’s scope of practice to demonstrated competence rather than the ...

SurGenTec has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement for Allevion Medical’s Vantage spinal decompression technology. The agreement gives SurGenTec exclusive rights to Vantage, a disposable, ...

The spine industry keeps producing new technology. Bilal Butt, MD, wants to know how much of it actually makes surgery better. At Cleveland Clinic, where surgeons have access to advanced implants, ...

Pain management and spine practices are entering a period of unprecedented change. Private equity firms, family offices, venture investors, health systems, and payer-aligned strategic buyers are all ...

When payers deny or delay indicated spine surgery, the cost doesn’t disappear — it moves to patients, surgeons, hospitals, employers and the broader economy, according to a new Orthopaedic Forum paper ...

Medicare is changing the financial equation for spine surgeons, and reimbursement cuts are only part of it. With thousands of specialists entering mandatory payment models, prior authorization ...

Timothy Herbert, MD, the hand surgeon who invented the Herbert screw for fixing scaphoid fractures, died Oct. 3 at age 85, according to a published obituary. Dr. Herbert earned his medical degree from ...

Grand Forks, N.D.-based Altru Health System named Jeremy Gardner, MD, chief medical officer, effective Oct. 19. Dr. Gardner has spent more than 16 years with Altru, caring for patients as an ...

Las Vegas-based Desert Orthopaedic Center has provided notice of a data privacy incident.  The organization learned of the breach on or about Aug. 7. An investigation determined that certain ...

A federal judicial panel centralized 49 lawsuits into two manufacturer-specific proceedings, again declining to put all spinal cord stimulator litigation before one judge. The U.S. Judicial Panel on ...

Spine surgery’s technology boom is making operations more precise, less invasive and increasingly data-driven. It is also creating a new set of problems. As robotics, navigation, AI, endoscopy and ...