Hospital-level variation in hospitalization costs for spinal fusion in the United States

• Joanna Curry,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Laboratories (CORELAB), David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Nam Yong Cho,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Laboratories (CORELAB), David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Shannon Nesbit,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Laboratories (CORELAB), David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Shineui Kim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Laboratories (CORELAB), David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Konmal Ali,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Laboratories (CORELAB), David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Varun Gudapati,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Richard Everson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Peyman Benharash

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Pbenharash@mednet.ucla.edu

  Affiliations Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Laboratories (CORELAB), David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4705-0262

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