Utilization and expenditures of vertebral augmentation continue to decline: An analysis in fee-for-service (ffs) recipients from 2009 to 2018

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Fee-for-Service Plans 100%
• Health Expenditures 78%
• Medicare 73%
• Kyphoplasty 64%
• Vertebroplasty 61%
• Economic Inflation 36%
• Population 30%
• Medicare Part C 10%
• Compression Fractures 8%
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.) 8%
• Intractable Pain 8%
• Outpatients 4%
• Physicians 4%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 4%
• Therapeutics 1%