A proposed Medicare rule could cut physician reimbursement for total hip and knee replacement procedures by 20% in 2027, the OrthoForum warned. The alliance represents 96 independent orthopedic ...

For a generation, the hardest question in spine surgery was whether a case could be done at all, and then whether it could be done outside a hospital. Surgeons answered it. Fusions and decompressions ...

An operation can go exactly as planned and still become a bad surgical episode. The patient leaves the hospital, then falls at home. Pain or swelling sends them to the emergency department. A ...

Getting an orthopedic practice to adopt AI isn’t a technology problem — it’s a trust problem, according to John Bring, vice president of clinical innovation and performance at Omaha, Neb.-based Sequel ...

Medtronic has completed its acquisition of SPR Therapeutics, a pain management medtech company, for $650 million.  SPR Therapeutics develops percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation therapies for ...

Medtech company Stryker has commercially launched the Mako Robotic Power System for total knee replacement procedures. The handheld, robotic-assisted system is compatible with Stryker’s Triathlon ...

CMS on July 14 issued a proposed rule outlining Medicare Part B payment policy changes for physicians and other practitioners under the calendar year 2027 Physician Fee Schedule, with changes proposed ...

A stem cell therapy designed to repair damaged nerve pathways is moving closer to clinical testing for people with chronic spinal cord injury, according to a July 13 Inside Precision Medicine report ...

Gabriele Jasper, MD, founder of the Jasper Spine Institute in Brick Township, N.J., died in a plane crash July 13 in upstate New York. He was 70, according to a July 15 Jersey Shore Online report. Dr.

CMS has framed its proposed 2027 Medicare physician payment rule as a pivot from “sick care to healthcare.” For orthopedic and spine practices, the proposal carries a more immediate message: The ...

Before Ziya Gokaslan, MD, enters the operating room, he increasingly wants the operation to have happened once already.  Not on the patient, but on a digital model of the patient’s spine. Using ...

Memorial Hospital hosted the first U.S. surgery using Signus USA’s VertaConnect spinal implant system. The procedure was performed July 3 by spinal surgeon Ngoc-Lam Nguyen, MD. The VertaConnect system ...