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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The FDA has granted 510(k) clearance to an antibiotic-delivering knee spacer developed by Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham. The spacer delivers antibiotics directly to an infected ...

Physicians and practice leaders increasingly point to payers as one of the biggest obstacles to running a sustainable practice. From CMS policy changes and declining Medicare reimbursement to private ...

When Daniel Park, MD, began learning endoscopic spine surgery nearly a decade ago, the surgeons coming up behind him barely knew what to make of it. Fellowship applicants would hear “endoscopic” and ...

Saluda Medical made its Cap24 surgical paddle lead commercially available across the U.S., giving neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons who implant paddle leads access to closed-loop spinal cord ...

A spine patient can wait months to see a surgeon only to learn at the appointment that surgery is not the next step. They may need physical therapy first. They may need pain management or an injection ...

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons will partner with Oxford University Press to publish its six Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group journals, which will go fully digital Jan. 1, ...

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 ...

Providence and MultiCare Health System have agreed to pay a combined $155.5 million to settle two class-action lawsuits brought by former patients of Jason Dreyer, DO, a neurosurgeon accused of ...