Dexur’s analysis of medicare claims of hospitals within a 10-mile radius of New York City, NY, showed that Hospital for Special Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center were the most cost-efficient hospitals over a 90 day episode for Spine Surgeries. Dexur’s value analysis tracks a patient’s episode of care from the date of admission for 90 days and includes the index hospitalizations, rehospitalization, home health, nursing home, and ED costs. Total cost of care data helps patients make appropriate choices and helps local ACOs, such as NewYork Quality Care, FamilyHealth ACO, LLC, Alliance for Integrated Care of New York, LLC, and HHC ACO, make appropriate referral choices. The analysis was risk-adjusted, for alive and non-hospice patients and was done at the DRG level, specifically DRG 460: Spinal Fusion Except Cervical without Major Complication or Comorbidity, to adjust for complications and comorbidities.

By: Yosh Thomas  Oct. 27, 2020

Dexur analyzed Medicare Claims data to calculate the Medicare Spending per Beneficiary (MSPB) cost for hospitals in the New York tri-state area for Spine surgery and found a wide disparity among hospitals in each sub-area such as Manhattan, Long Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut. MSPB is 25% of the weighting for the CMS Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) programs.

By: Avinash Kumar  Nov. 15, 2019

Dr. Spero is a top-ranked Spine surgeon based on case volume as per Dexur's analysis of Medicare claims data and he recently did an interview about his background and perspective on robotic-assisted procedures.

By: Saparja Nag  Apr. 10, 2018

Dexur analysts studied Colorado physicians who performed operations on the spine between January 2013 and December 2016 and found that Dr. William Choi outperformed any other physician in the state treating almost 100 more inpatient cases than the 2nd highest discharging physician. He led the state with 453 discharges, which was 92 more than the 2nd ranked Dr. Paul Stanton with 361 discharges. Dr. Roger D. Sung and Dr. Robert J. Benz joined Dr. Choi and Dr. Stanton as the only four physicians in the state to have operated on over 300 inpatients for conditions of the spine. Dr. Sung saw 333 Medicare inpatients, while Dr. Benz treated 324 during the same four-year time period. Dr. Hans C. Coester ranked 5th in the state with 290 spinal operations.