The percentage of sacroiliac fusions done in the U.S. by non-surgical specialties has increased

Our study demonstrated how quickly and to what degree the procedure market can react to higher work relative value unit (RVU) value codes. Despite requiring less overall time and utilizing an intra-articular rather than a transfixing approach, non-surgical specialties submitted the same CPT code as surgical specialties performing the transfixing procedure at an increasing rate during the study period. With the introduction of new technologies to perform SI fixation and a new code to capture the intra-articular procedure, future studies could examine whether the number of SI fusion procedures performed by the various physician specialties stabilizes over time.