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The purpose of our study was to compare the outcomes of cervical disc arthroplasty between patients receiving and those not receiving Workers\u2019 Compensation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Patient-reported outcomes, reoperations, complications, and return-to-work status were analyzed at one year after surgery in an observational cohort of consecutive patients who underwent single-level or multilevel cervical disc arthroplasty for symptomatic cervical disc conditions, including radiculopathy or discogenic pain with or without radiculopathy, exclusive of myelopathy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Of the 189 patients who underwent cervical disc arthroplasty, 144 received Workers\u2019 Compensation and forty-five did not. The mean scores on all patient-reported measures improved significantly from preoperative baseline to one year after surgery (p &lt; 0.001), and the improvement in patient-reported outcomes did not differ significantly between the Workers\u2019 Compensation and the non-Workers\u2019 Compensation group (respectively, 22.7 compared with 25.0 for the Neck Disability Index; 8.3 compared with 9.6 for the Short Form (SF)-36 physical component summary; 7.9 compared with 9.6 for the SF-36 mental component summary; 3.5 compared with 3.7 for neck pain; and 2.6 compared with 2.8 for arm pain). The two groups also did not differ significantly in the rate of reoperations (7.6% for those receiving Workers\u2019 Compensation compared with 13.3% for those not receiving Workers\u2019 Compensation) and complications (2.8% compared with 4.4%, respectively). At one year after surgery, the proportion of patients who had returned to work was comparable (77.7% in the Workers\u2019 Compensation group and 79.4% in the non-Workers\u2019 Compensation group); however, the patients receiving Workers\u2019 Compensation had significantly more days off before returning to work (a mean of 145.2 compared with 61.9 days; p = 0.001).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>After cervical disc arthroplasty, patients receiving Workers\u2019 Compensation had outcomes that were similar to those of patients not receiving Workers\u2019 Compensation in terms of patient-reported outcomes, surgery-related complications, reoperations, and return-to-work status. Patients receiving Workers\u2019 Compensation remained off work for a longer interval than did patients not receiving Workers\u2019 Compensation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Level of Evidence:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Prognostic\n                      <jats:underline>Level II<\/jats:underline>\n                      . 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