If you would like to recommend another surgery center for this list, contact Anuja Vaidya at [email protected]. Boston Surgery Center (Waltham, Mass.). The surgery center offers stellate ...

Here are the 2010 Medicare reimbursement rates for 11 nerve block procedures performed in the ASC setting. 4. Nerve block injections(s), anesthetic agent and/or steroid, plantar common digital nerve(s ...

Neurosurgery is following a familiar path: just as orthopedics and cardiology moved key procedures to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), spine and neurovascular surgeons now have the technology and ...

Over the course of 18 years, Carol Thompson’s back pain had become so intense and unrelenting that her doctor thought it was at least partly psychosomatic. “It radiated from about 3 inches below my ...

Philadelphia, Pa. (May 7, 2013) - Interspinous spacer implantation—a less-invasive alternative surgical option for spinal stenosis—has a lower complication rate than spinal fusion, reports a study in ...

Q: My wife is 77 and has spinal stenosis. She's often in pain. We read about a new procedure called "minimally invasive lumbar decompression," which we are hoping might help. She really wants to avoid ...