Can We Justify It? Trends in the Utilization of Spinal Fusions and Associated Reimbursement

Previous reports have suggested an increasing rate of utilization of spinal fusions, but contemporary data have not been analyzed, and there has been little investigation of putative drivers of increased utilization.To investigate whether there is an ongoing trend of increased utilization of spinal fusions in recent data, and if there may be associations with an increasing proportion of elderly in the population, changing patterns of...