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Physicians performed more than 200,000 unnecessary back surgeries on older adults over a three-year period, costing Medicare $1.9 billion over that time, according to new analysis from the Lown ...

Bella Breslow's spinal surgery for scoliosis was so successful that not only is she back playing softball, she's added ...

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The number of times this week I have heard people talk excitedly about their upcoming back surgery has left me genuinely disheartened. Not because surgery never has a place - but because it highlights ...

U.S. hospitals have performed more than 200,000 unnecessary vertebroplasty, spinal fusion and laminectomy operations since 2020, costing Medicare nearly $2 billion, according to research from the Lown ...

Over three years unnecessary back surgeries have cost Medicare an estimated $1.9 billion, according to an analysis from the Lown Institute. Six things to know: 1. The Lown Institute evaluated Medicare ...