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Pioneers Medical the only Western Slope facility using FDA-approved TOPS™ System
Dr. J. Alex Sielatycki, a fellowship-trained spine surgeon at (PMC) in Meeker, started performing surgeries using the ...
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Surgeons Billed $2 Billion for Unnecessary Spine Surgeries: Report
including spinal fusion and/or laminectomy or vertebroplasty, over a recent 3-year period, according to an analysis of Medicare claims data from the Lown Institute. If unnecessary, such procedures ...
Exposing A National Spine Surgery Scandal: A Call for Change
Recently, an important study exposed a shocking reality: one unnecessary spine surgery is performed every eight minutes in ...
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Southern California Orthopedic Institute adds spine surgeon
Southern California Orthopedic Institute added George Wahba, MD, according to a Dec. 2 Instagram post.
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Medicare spent $2B on unneeded back surgeries
including spinal fusion, laminectomy, and vertebroplasty, over three-year periods. The most recently available data for fee-for-service was from 2020 to 2022 and from 2019 to 2021 for Medicare ...