CHICAGO — Patients who have acute spine trauma without insurance may receive fewer resource-intensive procedures, such as operative fixation or MRI imaging, compared with patients who have insurance, according to results presented here.
“Certainly, the clinical outcomes are worse with uninsured status, and the disparities in the workup, in terms of the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that they obtained, may be contributing to the worsening outcomes,” Sanket Mehta, BA, said in his presentation at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting.
Using the National Trauma