Background: In 2014, inpatient spinal fusion surgery had the highest aggregate cost of any
inpatient surgery performed in the United States, costing 12 billion dollars. As the national …

Study Design: Level III. Purpose: To retrospectively review the eligibility of surgical patients
meeting predetermined outpatient surgery criteria in a single-surgeon private practice …

Because of the increasing pressure to contain health-care–related costs, the number of
spinal surgeries performed in the outpatient setting has significantly increased. The higher …

Spine surgery is a key target for cost reduction within the United States health care system.
One possible strategy involves the transition of inpatient surgeries to the ambulatory setting …

OBJECTIVE Spinal procedures are increasingly conducted as outpatient procedures, with a
growing proportion conducted in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). To date, studies …

Study Design. Retrospective database review. Objective. The aim of the present study was
to examine how often spine surgery is being performed in an outpatient hospital setting …

Study Design. A retrospective case-control study. Objective. The aim of this study was to
determine the nationwide trends and complication rates associated with outpatient posterior …

OBJECTIVE From 1994 to 2006 outpatient spinal surgery increased 5-fold. The perceived
cost savings with outcomes comparable to or better than those achieved with inpatient …

Background Outpatient spine surgery has been increasingly used recently owing to its
perceived cost benefits and its ability to offset the volume from the inpatient setting …

Study Design. Retrospective cohort database study. Objective. The aim of this study was to
investigate trends in utilization and demographics in Spinal Deformity Surgery. Summary of …