Appropriate operating room time allocations and half-day block time for low caseload proceduralists, including anesthesiologist pain medicine physicians in the State of Florida.

Study Objective: We analyzed University of Iowa operating room data to estimate whether it would be economically rational to allocate, every two weeks, an operating room to anesthesiology pain medicine physicians or a half-day session to individual proceduralists. We investigated the generalizability of the results by studying anesthesiologist pain medicine physicians working at all hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers in the State of Florida.

Design: Observational, cohort study of spinal neuromodulation procedures.

Annual Number of Spinal Cord Stimulation Procedures Performed in the State of Florida During 2018: Implications for Establishing Neuromodulation Centers of Excellence.

Objective: To assess the volume of spinal cord stimulation procedures performed by physicians in the state of Florida in 2018.

Materials And Methods: We obtained information from publicly available state databases for all patients undergoing procedures in 2018 at Florida hospitals, hospital-owned facilities, and independent ambulatory surgery centers. Cases in which a spinal cord stimulation procedure was performed were identified.