Unnecessary back surgeries cost Medicare $1.9B: Report

(By: Paige Twenter for Becker’s Hospital Review)

U.S. hospitals have performed more than 200,000 unnecessary vertebroplasty, spinal fusion and laminectomy operations since 2020, costing Medicare nearly $2 billion, according to research from the Lown Institute. Continue reading here…

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