The 2026 CPT code set includes several additions and updates for spine procedures. Here are seven developments to know, according to the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery: 1.

HILLSDALE, MI – Hillsdale Hospital has completed its first lumbar total disc replacement surgery, making it the only facility ...

Spine surgery complications do not necessarily surface in the operating room. The conditions for breakdown are laid long before a patient ever reaches the table. From the outside, the work looks ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Richard Menger is a neurosurgeon and a political scientist. A post-operative x-ray showing a spinal deformity correction for ...

Ascension’s Dell Children’s Medical Center North Campus is changing the future of medical procedures by becoming the first pediatric hospital in the world to provide robotic spine surgeries. “The ...

At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, in Chicago, Richard N.W. Wohns, MD, JD, MBA, will give a presentation titled “Comparing the Reimbursement of Spine ...

Virtua Health, the largest health system in southern New Jersey, has introduced a significant advancement in spine surgery. Virtua Health is the first organization in the Philadelphia and South Jersey ...

A cervical foraminotomy is a procedure that decompresses a nerve in the neck. A spine surgeon removes bone or disc pieces that are pressing on the nerves that go from your neck to your arm. The ...

More than 90% of hospitals are overusing risky back surgeries that don't help patients with age-related pain. One unnecessary ...