Gilsbar, a private health and benefits management organization, expanded its employee benefits to include Regenexx's interventional orthopedic clinic network.

Bruce D. Moffatt, MD, joined the staff of two Phoenix Spine & Joint ASCs in Scottsdale and Goodyear, Ariz.

The Spine Institute at Baldwin Bone & Joint added nurse practitioner Elizabeth "Hill" Luscher, CRNP, to its team of neck and spine specialists.

Texas Health Surgery Center Rockwall launched its outpatient total joint replacement program six months ago and to date the multispecialty ASC reports great success.

Between 2016 and 2021, the Advisory Board forecasts 23 percent growth in outpatient surgery while over the same time period projecting inpatient surgery growth of 1 percent.

On July 8, a U.S. district judge certified the class action lawsuit against Laser Spine Institute, the Tampa-based outpatient spine surgery center chain, brought by former employees after the company closed its doors, according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

Here are three practices making moves in the outpatient spine space this year:

Payments, preferences and policies affect the viability of outpatient spine services.

Towson, Md.-based SurgCenter Development has continued expanding its outpatient complex spine program in 2019.

Emerging partnerships and payer strategy shifts are creating new dynamics for outpatient spine practices, according to healthcare leaders interviewed by Becker's ASC Review.

Here are three outpatient spine centers that were opened or announced in June:

Growth in the outpatient spine space isn't slowing any time soon, industry leaders say.

Here are nine spine centers that were opened, announced or involved in partnerships in May 2019:

  Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital opened a 27,000-square-foot center dedicated to spine surgeries this month in Nashville, Tenn., the Nashville Business Journal reports.

SurgCenter Development is developing a spine ASC in Neenah, Wis., through a joint venture with physicians, according to the Post Crescent, part of the USA Today network.

Mercy Medical Center opened a minimally invasive spine center and tapped neurosurgeon Frederik A. Pennings, MD, as its leader, MassLive reports.

Muskegon (Mich.) Surgery Center is the state's first ASC to use Medtronic's Mazor X Stealth Edition robotic guidance platform for spine surgery.

Southwoods Health is consolidating primary care and pain services at its new, on-campus Pain & Spine Center, The Business Journal reports.

Tampa, Fla.-based Shriners Hospitals for Children plans to lay off 60 hospital employees Aug. 1, months after announcing a new focus on outpatient care, the Tampa Bay Business Journal reports.

Tampa (Fla.) Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Center joined Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System, according to Jennifer Pagliaro, RN, director of nursing at the center.