Becker's Healthcare May 22, 2024
Outpatient spine surgery is growing, and its outlook suggests the trend will likely continue.
Here are four studies illustrating the state of outpatient spine surgery and where it’s headed.
1. Outpatient spine procedures grew among Medicare patients between 2010 and 2021, with significant yearly growth at ASCs, according to a study in the March 2024 issue of the North American Spine Society Journal.
Researchers conducted a cross-sectional study of Medicare billing database information for spine procedures between 2010 to 2021 to measure changes in outpatient volume in the Medicare population. The total number of outpatient spine procedures rose about 193% from 2010 to 2021. The compound annual growth rate for outpatient cases per year was 9.9% for hospital outpatient...
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