X Stop follow-up data
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Four-year follow-up data published in the July issue of Journal of Spinal Disorders & Techniques suggest that lumbar spinal stenosis patients treated with X Stop have "significantly greater improvement," according to St. Francis Medical. Moreover, 78% of the 18 patients had successful long-term outcomes. The results follow a separate study recently published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine demonstrating that X Stop had a significantly greater clinical success rate (63.4%) than nonoperative care (12.9%). A new technology add-on payment for FY '07 is pending additional data on substantial clinical improvement (1"The Gray Sheet" April 17, 2006, p. 5)...
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