The Double-Edged Sword of Efficiency: Tech vs. Reimbursement in Spine Surgery

In that conversation, or when you made mention of that, you said you have to be very, very careful as you assess new technologies, especially ones that reduce actual procedure times, because if you— NAS endorses a reduction in procedure time, then it could come back and bite the surgeon from a reimbursement point of view. So you have to be careful. And it would almost imply to me that if a technology reduces procedure time, that's actually a negative from a spine surgeon point of view. Did I hear you correctly?

Sort of. So there's, there's, there's 3 things here. Okay. So first thing is we do a lot of work with the insurance industry. So we write these things, we call them coverage recommendation documents because we have a, we have a group called the Payer Policy Review Committee. So all the payers, there's like 150+ of them out there. They, they have policies they want us to review relative to spine surgery, spine care, whatever.