Utilization of Facet Joint and Sacroiliac Joint Interventions in Medicare Population from 2000 to 2014: Explosive Growth Continues!

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• 作者：Laxmaiah Manchikanti ; Joshua A. Hirsch…
• 关键词：Facet joint interventions ; Sacroiliac joint injections ; Chronic spinal pain ; Patterns of utilization
• 刊名：Current Pain and Headache Reports
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：20
• 期：10
• 全文大小：1,468 KB
• 刊物主题：Pain Medicine; Internal Medicine;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1534-3081
• 卷排序：20

文摘

Increasing utilization of interventional techniques in managing chronic spinal pain, specifically facet joint interventions and sacroiliac joint injections, is a major concern of healthcare policy makers. We analyzed the patterns of utilization of facet and sacroiliac joint interventions in managing chronic spinal pain. The results showed significant increase of facet joint interventions and sacroiliac joint injections from 2000 to 2014 in Medicare FFS service beneficiaries. Overall, the Medicare population increased 35 %, whereas facet joint and sacroiliac joint interventions increased 313.3 % per 100,000 Medicare population with an annual increase of 10.7 %. While the increases were uniform from 2000 to 2014, there were some decreases noted for facet joint interventions in 2007, 2010, and 2013, whereas for sacroiliac joint injections, the decreases were noted in 2007 and 2013. The increases were for cervical and thoracic facet neurolysis at 911.5 % compared to lumbosacral facet neurolysis of 567.8 %, 362.9 % of cervical and thoracic facet joint blocks, 316.9 % of sacroiliac joints injections, and finally 227.3 % of lumbosacral facet joint blocks.