The 2026 CPT code set includes several additions and updates for spine procedures. Here are seven developments to know, according to the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery: 1.
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 ...
HILLSDALE, MI – Hillsdale Hospital has completed its first lumbar total disc replacement surgery, making it the only facility ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Richard Menger is a neurosurgeon and a political scientist. A post-operative x-ray showing a spinal deformity correction for ...
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 ...
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 ...
At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, in Chicago, Richard N.W. Wohns, MD, JD, MBA, will give a presentation titled “Comparing the Reimbursement of Spine ...
Tiger Woods recently underwent back surgery - the seventh procedure he needed to address issues with his lower spine. The 49-year-old golf pro shared the news with a statement on X, saying, “After ...