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While existing studies have evaluated safety, efficacy, and outcomes from navigation assistance, national reimbursement, and utilization patterns remain poorly characterized. This study aims to quantify temporal, geographic, and provider-level trends in navigation-assisted spine surgery among Medicare beneficiaries.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Materials and Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The Medicare Part B National Summary Data Files were queried for national utilization and reimbursements for Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) 61783 (add-on code for navigation-assisted spine surgery) from 2011 to 2024. Additional Medicare databases were queried for geographic- and physician-level trends in navigation assistance utilization from 2013 to 2023. Linear regression was performed on national utilization trends.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>From 2011 to 2024, allowed services for navigation-assisted spine surgery grew 917.41%, from 3447 in 2011 to 35,070 in 2024. Adjusting for growth in the number of Medicare Part B beneficiaries, this represents a 637.03% increase. In 2023, most physicians performing navigation-assisted spine surgery were neurosurgeons and practiced in urban metropolitan settings. Between 2013 and 2023, all 50 states observed an increase in utilization rate for navigation-assisted spine surgeries. From 2011 to 2024, reimbursements for this add-on code steadily declined by 31.78%, from $334.88 to $228.45.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>As indications have expanded, utilization of the navigation-assisted spine surgery CPT code has increased sixfold from its introduction in 2011 to 2024. Simultaneously, reimbursements have declined by 31.78%, raising important concerns about misalignment between the clinical value and financial support for navigation-assisted spine surgery.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.4103\/jcvjs.jcvjs_147_26","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,18]],"date-time":"2026-09-18T17:00:29Z","timestamp":1789750829000},"page":"553-559","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["National Medicare trends in navigation-assisted spine surgery: A temporal and geographic analysis"],"prefix":"10.4103","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Bhavjeet S.","family":"Sanghera","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Muneeb K.","family":"Mohiuddin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Khushi H.","family":"Shah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Malachi","family":"Peterson-Hester","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Adonicah","family":"Cummings","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Education, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Emily L.","family":"Errante","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA"},{"name":"The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Adam S.","family":"Levy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Adham M.","family":"Khalafallah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"S. 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