… of race/ethnicity on the hospital charges and LOS of anterior cervical spine surgery. It is likely
that several factors contributed to the observed increased charges and longer LOS among …

… analyzed for 816 patients who underwent spine surgery between 2005 and 2008 at our
institution, and their treatment costs (hospital charges) were assessed with the help of SPSS …

… The relationship between hospital charges and payments for cervical spine surgery
without complication is associated with certain hospital and patient population characteristics. …

… total hospitalization cost after spine surgery. Cost data were obtained by conversion of the
hospital charges using the group average cost to charge ratio for each hospital in the database…

… for outpatient spinal procedures in the … charges and cumulative 7-, 30-, and 90-day charges
for patients undergoing outpatient lumbar decompression in freestanding ASCs and hospital …

… Only actual Medicare payments, and not submitted charges, were considered in this study.
Total payment data were stratified into four components: payments related to the index …

… For instance, the total number of spine deformity surgeries between 2000 to 2010 in … charge
per inpatient stay increased more than 230 %, and total charges for spine deformity surgery …

… These are not patient charges; rather, they are a list of individual medications or services …
to the hospital system of providing the specific service to that patient on a particular hospital day…

… Walid and Robinson 9 analyzed 816 spinal surgical … and depression—upon the overall
hospital charge for certain procedures. … our results, as we report costs instead of hospital charges. …

… in spinal surgery. … -hospital charges and do not account for differential charges after the
hospitalization. As such, the effect of BMP on the rate of nonunion or number of revision surgeries …