ASPN-SDN Miami Meet-Up: July 17-20, 2025

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Pack your syringes, shine your pointiest shoes, and tell your ethics committee to take a long lunch—because ASPN Miami 2025 is less “clinical update” and more “luxury bacchanalia for the spine elite.”

This ain’t your average CME. It’s a three-day immersive deep-tissue massage of the mind, where closed-loop SCS meets open-bar hospitality, and your biggest decision is whether to attend a hands-on DRG lab or a rooftop mixer with a device rep whose badge says "Clinical Education" but whose Louboutin heels say "have I got a thing or two to show you."

• Neurotech Horizons: Experience disruptive innovation... while disruptively innovating your liver enzymes with the sponsored champagne brunch.
• Business & Law Breakouts: M&A tips for your ASC empire—followed by M&M’s in the VIP lounge with lawyers who moonlight as tequila sommeliers.
• Hands-On Labs: Ultrasound? DRG? SI fusion? Sure. But the real hands-on comes later, poolside, courtesy of the Hospitality Suite Cabana Network.

Rub elbows (and potentially morals) with KOLs, C-suite tech disruptors, and private equity deal-makers who treat CPT codes like poker chips. Slide into sidebars where contracts are inked on cocktail napkins and ideas flow faster than Amex Black Cards at the Fontainebleau bar.

Expense accounts are open, wives are at home with the kids, and inhibitions are closed. You’ll bump into old friends, new investors, and that one VP from device sales whose definition of "follow-up" includes bottle service and a guest pass to LIV.

So, dust off your prenup, submit your CME form (YOLO), and pack extra business cards with vague titles like “Founder” or “Medical Strategy Advisor.” Because this isn’t just a conference—this is the make it or break it spine gala of the year. Where spine meets sin, data meets decadence, and the most effective block is the one between your last memory and the hotel minibar.

See you in the 'Bleau...

 

[hyperalgesia]

Pack your syringes, shine your pointiest shoes, and tell your ethics committee to take a long lunch—because ASPN Miami 2025 is less “clinical update” and more “luxury bacchanalia for the spine elite.”

This ain’t your average CME. It’s a three-day immersive deep-tissue massage of the mind, where closed-loop SCS meets open-bar hospitality, and your biggest decision is whether to attend a hands-on DRG lab or a rooftop mixer with a device rep whose badge says "Clinical Education" but whose Louboutin heels say "have I got a thing or two to show you."

• Neurotech Horizons: Experience disruptive innovation... while disruptively innovating your liver enzymes with the sponsored champagne brunch.
• Business & Law Breakouts: M&A tips for your ASC empire—followed by M&M’s in the VIP lounge with lawyers who moonlight as tequila sommeliers.
• Hands-On Labs: Ultrasound? DRG? SI fusion? Sure. But the real hands-on comes later, poolside, courtesy of the Hospitality Suite Cabana Network.

Rub elbows (and potentially morals) with KOLs, C-suite tech disruptors, and private equity deal-makers who treat CPT codes like poker chips. Slide into sidebars where contracts are inked on cocktail napkins and ideas flow faster than Amex Black Cards at the Fontainebleau bar.

Expense accounts are open, wives are at home with the kids, and inhibitions are closed. You’ll bump into old friends, new investors, and that one VP from device sales whose definition of "follow-up" includes bottle service and a guest pass to LIV.

So, dust off your prenup, submit your CME form (YOLO), and pack extra business cards with vague titles like “Founder” or “Medical Strategy Advisor.” Because this isn’t just a conference—this is the make it or break it spine gala of the year. Where spine meets sin, data meets decadence, and the most effective block is the one between your last memory and the hotel minibar.

See you in the 'Bleau...

You have nicely encapsulated the reasons I avoid these affairs like hotels with bed bugs...

 

[drusso]

Rumors are circulating that some Big Announcements regarding the 2026 KOL line-up will be made. Stand by...

 

[drusso]

The countdown is on...

This year’s theme? Thriving Through the Big Beautiful Bill. That’s right—Congress finally passed it, and with it comes a tidal wave of “cost containment” (read: over $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts) that’s going to squeeze pain docs harder than a fluoroscopy-guided trigger point injection. You’ll want to be front row for the “How to Sell Your Soul to an ASC and Still Bill 99214” panel.

Policy & Profiteering Tracks
Learn how to “ethically” offload your Medicaid patients while sipping rosé. Discover how to squeeze just enough from your private equity overlords without getting benched. Master the subtle art of contract negotiation where the real pain is in the carve-outs and the only cure is your lawyer’s burner phone.

Clinical Meets Carnal
Attend cutting-edge hands-on labs in DRG, SIJ fusion, and maybe a little fusion of your own later, if that SCS rep with the glossy business card and even glossier legs has anything to say about it. Pro tip: their badge may say "Education Specialist," but their dinner invite says “Tinder, but with CPT codes.”

Practice Management, Reimagined
Join us for Urine Toxicology Investment Roundtables—where everyone’s just one capital raise away from becoming the next “pee-in-a-cup” mogul. AI tools for documentation? Practice optimization apps? You’ll leave Miami either funded or funneling your own Series A.

APP Recruitment Pearls
Shift into overtime because you’ll need someone to do the procedures while you’re busy at the rooftop cabana interviewing your next nurse practitioner, preferably one who doesn’t ask what a 1099 is.

Personal Injury Law & Client Broker Integration
Network with PI lawyers and brokers in a “mutually beneficial” champagne brunch mixer. Share war stories, client lists, and maybe a 20% contingency fee under the table (figuratively, of course... wink).

Fellow Matchmaking & Speed Dating
New grads, bring your CV. Employers, bring your checkbooks. The rest of us will be placing bets on how long their non-competes will last. It's like Match.com with less stability and more liability coverage.

Medical Device Casino: SIJ Fusion Roulette
Will you win a shiny new starter kit or get ghosted after six referrals and one 10-minute demo? Take your chances at the Device Lounge—where odds are your rep already bought the bottle you’re drinking.

So, cancel couples counseling this week, dust off your prenup, submit your CME (for optics), and print extra business cards with amorphous titles like “Managing Director of Outcomes Strategy.” Because this isn’t your average meeting—it’s where spine meets sin, MIPS meets mojitos, and the most effective block is between your last memory and the rooftop bar tab.


See you in the 'Bleau.

 

[Ronin1]

don’t be such haters. It’s a low cost meeting in a good location that has some really excellent restaurants. I go to the meeting every year. I just skip the lectures

 

[Agast]

Last time I went to a conference I tried to eat as many expensive snacks in between sessions as humanly possible to make up for the cost of the registration fee, and that’s pretty much all I remember

 

[drusso]

Step right up, dames and docs, gents and degenerates—because the Fusion Lounge is where 1920s excess meets 2020s lumbar access. We’re talking SI joint fusion and minimally invasive lumbar love affairs—not your grandma’s ortho seminar, unless grandma was a bootlegger with a titanium sacrum.


Set against the velvet backdrop of Gatsby glam and Gilded Age greed, this speakeasy of surgical seduction is your front-row ticket to techniques that slice less and bill more. Sip champagne like you’re Daisy Buchanan, while deciding whether posterior SIJ screws or lateral approaches make your ROI sparkle brightest. It’s precision-guided medicine with the moral flexibility of a Roaring 20s stockbroker.

Come for the Techniques
Learn how to fuse without a fuss—and how to code it in such a way your auditor weeps, but your margins don’t.

Stay for the Atmosphere
Our lounge is where DRGs get debated, champagne gets sabered, and someone always ends up showing a fluoroscopy selfie at midnight.

Try Your Luck at SIJ Fusion Roulette
Will you walk away with a new starter kit, or just an invitation to an “educational dinner” with a suspiciously well-tanned rep named Chad? Only one way to find out.

Live Jazz. Live Demos. Live Rep Drama.
Because nothing says medical innovation like a flapper in scrubs trying to explain CPT crosswalks while dancing the Charleston.

So slip into your three-piece suit or your fringe dress and sneak past the prior auth gatekeepers. Password at the door? "Facet This." Because this isn’t just another breakout session—it’s a prohibition-era fever dream of clinical excess, where every fusion is minimally invasive, but the decadence is maximal.

The Fusion Lounge
Where your spine gets tighter, your margins get wider, and the only thing less stable than an unfused L5 is your alibi for why you missed the morning plenary.

Don’t miss it—because in this lounge, the only thing getting decompressed… is your divorce attorney's retainer...

 

[clubdeac]

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Step right up, dames and docs, gents and degenerates—because the Fusion Lounge is where 1920s excess meets 2020s lumbar access. We’re talking SI joint fusion and minimally invasive lumbar love affairs—not your grandma’s ortho seminar, unless grandma was a bootlegger with a titanium sacrum.


Set against the velvet backdrop of Gatsby glam and Gilded Age greed, this speakeasy of surgical seduction is your front-row ticket to techniques that slice less and bill more. Sip champagne like you’re Daisy Buchanan, while deciding whether posterior SIJ screws or lateral approaches make your ROI sparkle brightest. It’s precision-guided medicine with the moral flexibility of a Roaring 20s stockbroker.

Come for the Techniques
Learn how to fuse without a fuss—and how to code it in such a way your auditor weeps, but your margins don’t.

Stay for the Atmosphere
Our lounge is where DRGs get debated, champagne gets sabered, and someone always ends up showing a fluoroscopy selfie at midnight.

Try Your Luck at SIJ Fusion Roulette
Will you walk away with a new starter kit, or just an invitation to an “educational dinner” with a suspiciously well-tanned rep named Chad? Only one way to find out.

Live Jazz. Live Demos. Live Rep Drama.
Because nothing says medical innovation like a flapper in scrubs trying to explain CPT crosswalks while dancing the Charleston.

So slip into your three-piece suit or your fringe dress and sneak past the prior auth gatekeepers. Password at the door? "Facet This." Because this isn’t just another breakout session—it’s a prohibition-era fever dream of clinical excess, where every fusion is minimally invasive, but the decadence is maximal.

The Fusion Lounge
Where your spine gets tighter, your margins get wider, and the only thing less stable than an unfused L5 is your alibi for why you missed the morning plenary.

Don’t miss it—because in this lounge, the only thing getting decompressed… is your divorce attorney's retainer...

Wow that’s hilarious and amazing

 

[SSdoc33]

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Step right up, dames and docs, gents and degenerates—because the Fusion Lounge is where 1920s excess meets 2020s lumbar access. We’re talking SI joint fusion and minimally invasive lumbar love affairs—not your grandma’s ortho seminar, unless grandma was a bootlegger with a titanium sacrum.


Set against the velvet backdrop of Gatsby glam and Gilded Age greed, this speakeasy of surgical seduction is your front-row ticket to techniques that slice less and bill more. Sip champagne like you’re Daisy Buchanan, while deciding whether posterior SIJ screws or lateral approaches make your ROI sparkle brightest. It’s precision-guided medicine with the moral flexibility of a Roaring 20s stockbroker.

Come for the Techniques
Learn how to fuse without a fuss—and how to code it in such a way your auditor weeps, but your margins don’t.

Stay for the Atmosphere
Our lounge is where DRGs get debated, champagne gets sabered, and someone always ends up showing a fluoroscopy selfie at midnight.

Try Your Luck at SIJ Fusion Roulette
Will you walk away with a new starter kit, or just an invitation to an “educational dinner” with a suspiciously well-tanned rep named Chad? Only one way to find out.

Live Jazz. Live Demos. Live Rep Drama.
Because nothing says medical innovation like a flapper in scrubs trying to explain CPT crosswalks while dancing the Charleston.

So slip into your three-piece suit or your fringe dress and sneak past the prior auth gatekeepers. Password at the door? "Facet This." Because this isn’t just another breakout session—it’s a prohibition-era fever dream of clinical excess, where every fusion is minimally invasive, but the decadence is maximal.

The Fusion Lounge
Where your spine gets tighter, your margins get wider, and the only thing less stable than an unfused L5 is your alibi for why you missed the morning plenary.

Don’t miss it—because in this lounge, the only thing getting decompressed… is your divorce attorney's retainer...

drusso is like the dude from a beautiful mind. in both good and bad ways.....

 

[cowboydoc]

drusso is like the dude from a beautiful mind. in both good and bad ways.....

Nash?

 

[SSdoc33]

Nash?

i imagine this is what goes through drusso's head on a minute-by-minute basis. except the equations have $$$ and SOS (d) scattered with pain medicine puns

 

[drusso]

i imagine this is what goes through drusso's head on a minute-by-minute basis. except the equations have $$$ and SOS (d) scattered with pain medicine puns

 

[BobBarker]

@drusso please share the prompt!

 

[drusso]

@drusso please share the prompt!

 

[swamprat]

I'll be there Saturday and staying over night at Eden rock strictly to party - DM me if you wanna meet up we'll exchange numbers!