As increasingly complex spine cases head to ASCs, the April 2026 issue of Neurosurgical Focus, a publication of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, is devoted almost entirely to the present and future of ambulatory spine surgery.
The issue features these articles:
- Which spine surgeries belong in the ambulatory surgical center? Determining economic viability using time-driven activity-based costing (link)
- Do patients undergoing anterior cervical discectomy and fusion in the outpatient setting have better self-reported outcomes? A propensity-weighted multicenter registry study (link)
- Can we move thoracic disc surgery to the ambulatory setting? The role of endoscopy (link)
- Outpatient minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion performed at a single ambulatory surgery center: the Semmes Murphey Clinic experience (link)
- Outpatient lumbar fusion: an emerging frontier (link)
- Are ambulatory surgery centers a safe and effective setting for spinal cord stimulator placement? (link)
- Impact of resident involvement on operative efficiency in an ambulatory neurosurgical center: a comparative analysis of spine surgery cases (link)
- Spinal navigation in the ambulatory surgery center era: a single-center safety and outcomes analysis (link)
- Outpatient spine surgery: a neurosurgical perspective on the evolution, expansion, and economics of ambulatory surgery centers (link)
- Physician ownership of ambulatory spine surgery centers: overcoming capital and regulatory barriers through innovative legal structures (link)
