More than 200,000 Medicare patients with back pain underwent $2 billion worth of unnecessary surgeries, including spinal ...

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The hospital with the most unnecessary vertebroplasties had an overuse rate of 55.5%, while many of the hospitals with lower rates were at 0%, according to a re ...

A south Alabama hospital was highlighted in a recent report as having one of the highest rates of unnecessary back surgeries ...

Hospitals performed more than 200,000 unnecessary back surgeries on Medicare beneficiaries in the U.S. over three years, ...

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A new analysis revealed that Medicare spent roughly $2 billion over three years on unnecessary back surgeries for older adults. This alarming figure comes from research conducted by the nonpartisan ...

For the first time, the British Thoracic Society (BTS), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) have collaborated to develop ...