…enhanced primary care services. Global PBP: offers the highest risk sharing arrangement—100% savings/losses—and provides two payment options: Primary Care Capitation (described above) or Total Care Capitation, capitated, risk-adjusted monthly…

…Editorial Board, Journal of Orthopaedic Science (Japanese Orthopaedic Association) International Editorial Board, Asian Spine Journal Deputy Editor, Spine Arthroplasty Society Journal Corresponding Editor, Indonesian Orthopaedic Journal Reviewer, Spine Reviewer,…

…Although the collagen carrier is the optimal carrier for inside cages in interbody applications, posterolateral spine fusion is a different environment and requires a different carrier. In posterolateral spine…

…novel classification system of lumbar endplate morphology. SAS J 2008;2:16-22. Zairi F, Remacle JM, Allaoui M, et al. Delayed hypersensitivity reaction caused by metal-on-metal total disc replacement. J Neurosurg…

…Services (CMS) proposed a new payment model called Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (“Model”). The Model bundles Medicare payment for lower extremity joint replacements (hip and knee) and holds…

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…health care in our rural communities. Specifically, the CHART Model will: Increase financial stability for rural health care providers through multiple new funding approaches, including the use of up-front…

…decompression and micro dissection); since interspace; cervical); – 22861 (revision including replacement of total disc arthroplasty (artificial disc), anterior approach, single interspace; cervical); and – 22864 (removal of total…

…on health, medical, professional and AMA governance issues. Members of the House of Delegates include state medical associations, the five federal services, national medical specialty societies and professional interest…

…FDA IDE clinical trial. Spine. 2013;38(15):E907-918. doi:10.1097/BRS.0b013e318296232f Hisey MS, Bae HW, Davis R, et al. Multi-center, Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Investigational Device Exemption Clinical Trial Comparing Mobi-C Cervical Artificial Disc…

…Electrocore, Flagship Surgical, FlowPharma, Franklin Bioscience, Globus Medical, Innovative Surgical Design, Insight Therapeutics, Nuvasive, Paradigm Spine, Parvizi Surgical Innovations, Prime Surgeons, Progressive Spinal Technologies, Replication Medica, Spine Medica, Spinology,…

…using full-spine, lateral, standing X-rays, and well-known parameters can be calculated. The pelvic parameters are crucial to analyze before any kind of fusion surgery, in order to avoid…