Center variation in episode-of-care costs for adult spinal deformity surgery: results from a prospective, multicenter database

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.

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