A spine surgeon who performs more procedures generates more relative value units. But what about one who prevents an unnecessary operation, reduces complications or gets patients to the right ...

As more patients taking GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic seek spine surgery, surgeons need to look beyond weight loss to consider how changes in muscle and bone quality could affect surgical outcomes ...

Leo Kroonen, MD, plans to step down as chief of orthopedic surgery at Kaiser Permanente San Diego at the end of the year, according to an Oct. 15 LinkedIn post. Dr. Kroonen has spent more than eight ...

Kenneth Chakour, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Fox Valley Orthopedics in Geneva, Ill., became the first physician in Illinois and among the first nationwide to use new auto-planning software for the ...

Adil Ahmed, MD, is opening a solo orthopedic practice in Houston at a time when physician independence is moving in the opposite direction. The decline has been steady and well documented. By January ...

Hospitals and ASCs have spent years competing for surgical volume. Now, some are discovering that the economics of spine and orthopedic care increasingly favor working together. As more complex ...

HealthCare is building a systemwide “spine dashboard” to track how its surgical and nonsurgical spine patients fare over the long term, as spine surgery faces fresh questions about its value. On Sept.

One spine surgeon estimates he generated $20 million in annual revenue for a trauma center. But as more spine procedures become candidates for outpatient surgery, that figure illustrates a growing ...

SpineCraft received a U.S. patent for a hybrid technology that handles intraoperative registration and tracking in image-guided spine surgery. The spine surgery systems developer and manufacturer said ...

Selective thoracic fusion preserved more lumbar motion than nonselective fusion in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients with Lenke C-type lumbar curves, but it left larger residual curves and ...

GLP-1 medications are doing something orthopedic surgeons have not seen: returning patients to the surgical candidate pool. Patients who were previously excluded from joint replacement because of ...

For patients with deteriorating joints, the traditional advice has often been to manage the pain until it becomes unbearable enough to justify replacement. But what if waiting is part of the problem?