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Archive > March, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 3

Outfit Your OR for Spine Surgery Success

How to purchase the right equipment and assemble a highly skilled team for outpatient spine.

Thinking of adding spine? With minimally invasive spine surgeries increasingly moving to the outpatient setting, this potentially lucrative specialty can be a great compliment to your caseload, particularly if you're already doing orthopedics at your facility. The initial capital outlay for spine is fairly significant, but if you make wise purchasing decisions and take the time to develop efficient procedures to keep these cases running smoothly, spine can be a real profit-booster at a time when reimbursements for some of the more high-volume outpatient specialties are declining.

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