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Surgeons Billed $2 Billion for Unnecessary Spine Surgeries: Report
For example, hospitals in New Hampshire, Iowa, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Hawaii had the highest average rates of unnecessary spinal fusion/laminectomy procedures, while Arkansas ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel1d
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 ...
Baylor College of Medicine1y
Cervical Myelopathy: Cervical Spinal Cord Compression
in which a portion of the posterior aspect of the spinal canal is removed in a procedure known as laminectomy, and the anterior approach, in which the intervertebral disc is removed and the remaining ...
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Medicare spent $2B on unneeded back surgeries
The procedure was considered unnecessary for ... and Pennsylvania had the highest overuse rates of spinal fusion/laminectomy. That variability, while not surprising, is frustrating in its ...
Becker's Spine Review16d
Southern California Orthopedic Institute adds spine surgeon
Southern California Orthopedic Institute added George Wahba, MD, according to a Dec. 2 Instagram post.