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The authors evaluated the differences in costs and cost drivers between open and endoscopic decompression surgical procedures performed at a single institution.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Using associated Current Procedural Terminology codes, the authors identified all open and endoscopic decompression lumbar surgical procedures performed from January 1, 2016, through December 31, 2022. Preoperative comorbidities, surgical characteristics, and postoperative outcomes were captured. The costs of index surgery\u2013related readmission for revision, washout, or other complications were included in the index surgery expenses. Associated in-hospital costs were collected; these were reported in comparative percentages with open surgical procedures as the baseline because of an institutional agreement. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The retrospective search identified 633 open surgical procedures and 195 endoscopic surgical procedures for inclusion. The two patient cohorts were similar, with clinically nonrelevant but statistically significant differences in mean age (open 55.7 years vs endoscopic 59.4 years, p = 0.01) and mean American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status class (open 2.3 vs endoscopic 2.4, p = 0.03). Postoperatively, patients who underwent open surgical procedures had significantly longer mean hospital stays (open 1.4 days vs endoscopic 0.7, p &lt; 0.01) and more perioperative complications (open 7.9% of patients vs endoscopic 3.1%, p = 0.02), and they required washout surgical procedures in some cases (open 1.3% vs endoscopic 0%, p = 0.12). The largest cost difference between open and endoscopic surgical procedures was the significantly greater cost of disposable supplies for endoscopic cases (10.1% vs 31.7% of the total cost of open procedures, p &lt; 0.01), and open surgical procedures were generally less costly in total (100.0% vs 115.1%, p &lt; 0.01). In multivariate linear regression, endoscopic surgery was independently associated with greater total costs (standardized beta 15.9%, p &lt; 0.01), although length of hospital stay (standardized beta 34.0%) and readmissions (standardized beta 30.0%, p &lt; 0.01) had larger effects on cost.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The endoscopic approach was associated with greater total in-hospital costs compared with open procedures. The findings of further cost evaluations, including those of patient-reported outcomes, social cost, and capital costs per procedure type, need to be included in operational and clinical decisions.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3171\/2023.8.spine23439","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,14]],"date-time":"2023-10-14T01:53:24Z","timestamp":1697248404000},"page":"77-83","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Hospital cost differences between open and endoscopic lumbar spine decompression surgery"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"40","author":[{"given":"Matthew C.","family":"Findlay","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Forrest A.","family":"Hamrick","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neurosciences Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Robert B.","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neurosciences Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Spencer","family":"Twitchell","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neurosciences Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mark A.","family":"Mahan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neurosciences Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1754","reference":[{"key":"b1","series-title":"Handb Clin Neurol","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"787","DOI":"10.1016\/B978-0-444-53486-6.00039-9","article-title":"The degenerative spine: pattern recognition and guidelines to image interpretation","volume":"136","author":"Parizel PM","year":"2016","unstructured":"Parizel PM, Van Hoyweghen AJ, Bali A, Van Goethem J, Van Den Hauwe L. 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