Spine surgeons and health systems are adopting technologies ranging from robotic guidance and patient-specific implants to AI-assisted triage, endoscopic surgery and lower-cost navigation tools.

Florida has 21 hospitals on Healthgrades’ list of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Spine Surgery, the most of any state and one more than last year’s 20. California follows with 16 and Texas with 13.

Healthgrades published its “Specialty Excellence 2027 Awards,” recognizing hospitals for their patient outcomes across 19 specialties, including outpatient orthopedic surgery.  Five hospitals in New ...

Spine surgeons may determine when an operation is necessary, but they do not necessarily control the financial decisions surrounding it. Insurers influence which procedures are covered and whether ...

For Arianna Gianakos, DO, the future of foot and ankle surgery may be defined less by what surgeons can do than by what they no longer need to do. Among these are smaller incisions, less disruption to ...

Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health is set to open an orthopedic center in Baxter, Minn., according to an Oct. 26 report from Business North.  The more than 60,000-square-foot facility represents an ...

Medicare pays female and male neurosurgeons the same for identical procedures. The sex-based gap in total Medicare reimbursement comes from differences in procedure mix and patient complexity, ...

For spine surgeons, declining reimbursement is no longer just a financial concern. It is increasingly shaping which patients they can see, which procedures they can offer and how much time they can ...

In spine and orthopedic surgery, an abnormal MRI is not a surgical indication. But patients arrive convinced it is, and sorting through that disconnect is the most consequential part of the job, ...

The future of spine surgery may depend less on what happens in the operating room than on who controls everything that happens before it. For decades, spine practices have built their businesses ...

A Missouri spine surgeon and a Kansas medical device distributor were sentenced for their roles in a kickback scheme involving spinal implants sold by SpineFrontier. Jason Montone, DO, of Lawson, Mo., ...

For independent orthopedic surgeons, owning a surgery center was once a way to get ahead. Increasingly, it may be the only way to keep up. As physician reimbursement declines and the cost of running a ...