Samrat Yeramaneni, Christopher P Ames, Shay Bess, Doug Burton, Justin S Smith, Steven Glassman, Jeffrey L Gum, Leah Carreon, Amit Jain, Corinna Zygourakis, Ioannis Avramis, Richard Hostin
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Adult spinal deformity surgery (ASD) is associated with significant resource utilization, costing more than $958 million in charges for Medicare patients and over $1.7 billion in charges for managed care population in the last decade. Given the recent move towards bundled payment models, it is important to understand the various care components a patient receives over the course of a defined clinical episode, its associated cost, and the proportion of cost for each component towards the bundled payment...
March 22, 2018: Spine Journal: Official Journal of the North American Spine Society