Outpatient Spine

Timothy Phillips, MD, is a neurosurgeon at Optim Healthcare in Brunswick, N.J. He along with his fellow surgeons strive to perform the least invasive procedures possible, according to The Brunswick News.

Steamboat Springs, Colo.-based UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center proposed three plans to develop a new campus that would include an outpatient center, Steamboat Today reports.

Tampa, Fla.-based Laser Spine Institute added Brett Menmuir, MD, to its team of orthopedic surgeons.

Mark Giovanini, MD, performed his first spine surgery in an ASC with the coflex device from Paradigm Spine.

Here are five things to know about Burnsville, Minn.-based Ridges Surgery Center.

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Phoenix Spine will be one of 20 U.S.-based centers to study the effectiveness of Relievant Medsystems' Intracept procedure for chronic lower back pain.

Juris Shibayama, MD, performed Middle Tennessee's first minimally invasive outpatient transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion.

Orlando-based Central Florida Pain Specialists is rebranding as Mana Spine as it redefines its services to focus on spinal pain relief.

CMS released 32 episodes of care for the BPCI Advanced program, with three outpatient-only episodes including outpatient back and neck procedures, except spinal fusions. 

Mark Giovanini, MD, of NeuroMicroSpine in Pensacola, Fla., is an advocate and leader in outpatient surgery.