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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Patients who underwent robotic-assisted minimally invasive lumbar fusion surgery used 16% less opioid medication during hospitalization than those who underwent navigation-guided procedures, according ...

Independent spine and orthopedic practices are considering limiting Medicare appointments as CMS weighs a payment change that one Maryland-based group estimates could cost it $9 million over the next ...

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 ...

The North American Spine Society named Christopher Kauffman, MD, president during its 41st Annual Meeting in San Antonio. Dr. Kauffman is an orthopedic surgeon in private practice in the Nashville, ...

The device was supposed to relieve his shoulder pain. Instead, the patient arrived at the office of Travis Doering, MD, with severe arthritis, persistent symptoms and a nerve stimulator that had done ...

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 ...

Orthopedic surgeon Adil Ahmed, MD, announced on LinkedIn that he will open Houston Upper Extremity Center, an independent private practice, in early November. Dr. Ahmed founded the practice and will ...