Table 3.
Insurance carrier | Procedures converted from conventional to robot |
Revisions avoided* |
||
---|---|---|---|---|
Open | MIS | Open | MIS | |
Medicare | 139 | 39 | 3.77 | 0.15 |
Private pay | 197 | 55 | 5.33 | 0.22 |
Total | 336 | 94 | 9.10 | 0.37 |
MIS, minimally invasive spine surgery.
Assumes 2.7% revision rate for open surgery, 0.4% revision rate for MIS surgery, 0% revision rate for robotic surgery.