Outpatient Spine

Muskegon (Mich.) Surgery Center is the state's first ASC to use Medtronic's Mazor X Stealth Edition robotic guidance platform for spine surgery.

Southwoods Health is consolidating primary care and pain services at its new, on-campus Pain & Spine Center, The Business Journal reports.

Tampa, Fla.-based Shriners Hospitals for Children plans to lay off 60 hospital employees Aug. 1, months after announcing a new focus on outpatient care, the Tampa Bay Business Journal reports.

Tampa (Fla.) Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Center joined Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System, according to Jennifer Pagliaro, RN, director of nursing at the center.

Towson, Md.-based SurgCenter Development's outpatient complex spine program is growing.

A new study published in Clinical Spine Surgery compared patients who underwent two-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusions in hospitals and ASCs.

Cervical total disc replacement is safe to perform in the outpatient setting, according to new research published in Spine.

A new study published in Spine examines the safety of minimally invasive lumbar decompression in the ambulatory setting. 

A new study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine examines the readmission rates for multilevel anterior cervical discectomy and fusion procedures in the outpatient versus inpatient setting.

Here are 10 key facts and studies on outpatient spine surgery and spine procedures in ASCs: