Outpatient Spine

CMS Releases Proposed 2021 Medicare Hospital Outpatient and ASC Rule

A new app from Medtronic will let patients navigate spinal cord stimulation and therapy.

Since the beginning of the year, Becker's has reported on seven spine-focused surgery centers opened or announced:

Christopher Nanson, MD, and James Ballard, MD, two orthopedic surgeons from Oregon Surgical Institute in Beaverton, joined "Becker's Ambulatory Surgery Centers Podcast" to discuss how to address patient concerns with surgery migration to ASCs. 

Here is a state-by-state breakdown of more than 180 ASCs that perform minimally invasive spine surgery in the U.S.:

Armen Khachatryan, MD, joined the Masson Spine Institute's ASC in Park City, Utah.

One of the first outpatient prone transpsoas procedures in the U.S. was recently performed by Samuel Joseph, MD, of Joseph Spine Institute in Tampa, Fla.

Outpatient spine surgery has grown in the past year, and some ASC administrators are deciding if adding procedures is the right move for their business. Tony Mork, MD, founder of Endoscopic Spine Academy, sees endoscopic spine procedures as an opportunity…

From surgical benefits to payer challenges and implementation protocols, two spine surgeons outline key considerations for adding a new spine procedure:

Neurosurgeon Hamid Abbasi, MD, PhD, CMO of Burnsville, Minn.-based Inspired Spine, recently hosted a cadaver lab and surgery observation, where he performed two oblique lateral lumbar interbody fusions.