Table 4.

More than 75% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed with these five statements.

Questions in which > 75% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed	Percent who agree or strongly agree
Despite the limited compensation I ultimately receive from treating Medicare patients, I feel a moral obligation to treat these patients.	84.6%
Physicians at tertiary referral centers will be viewed as more aggressive in performing fusion and complex fusion without information such as comorbidities and percent of cases that are referred revisions.	76.9%
I am in favor of more transparency in quality and in management of healthcare costs.	86.2%
Without data on long-term cost of care, the CMS data does not represent spine surgery accurately because there are high initial expenditures.	83.1%
Because of the complexity of this database, patients are less likely to use this data, and it is more likely to be used by special interest groups and malpractice attorneys	78.5%