HealthPartners in Minnesota is planning to begin next month requiring surgeons to advise patients of less expensive alternatives to spine surgery for treatment of their low back pain.
At $25,000 per surgery for the roughly 600 procedures it covered in 2007, HealthPartners paid $15 million for procedures that, it believes, in some cases were not not [...]
[Having covered a very wide range of medical technology markets, spanning cardiology to gastroenterology, biotechs to devices and disposables/reusables/"reposables" to capital equipment, I have to note that the spine surgery market is really unique among all of them --- resistant to cost containment, persistently device-oriented, and subject to tremendous innovation all the same. In some [...]
Below is a report from MedMarket Diligence on the worldwide market for spine surgery technologies. The report is described at link.
Spine Surgery Worldwide 2008-2017: Products, Technologies, Markets & Opportunities, Worldwide, 2008-2017
· 380 pages · 190 Exhibits · 98 Company Profiles · Report #M510 · Published March [...]
