Annual spine patient volume

Build the case from sourced evidence and explicit owner requests. These are requested inputs, not measured NYU facts.

Start with the public evidence

Establish an inpatient discharge cohort and published payment exposure, then keep the remaining operating inputs explicit.

Read the cohort and post-acute analysis method

SPARCS discharge records: choose facility, year and APR cohort

TEAM participation: distinguish membership from episode eligibility

SNF, IRF and home-health payment tables: match year, geography and units

Need owner: NYU clinical analytics

Unique patients by surgical/non-surgical cohort, institution, fiscal/calendar year, inclusion rules and deduplication. Status: need; no patient volume established here.

Find source records and their limits

Inspect coverage evidence

Inspect published rates, not operating cost

Inspect declared needs and scope

Check a quantitative claim

Check an interpretation