Kai Lewandrowski

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Becker’s Healthcare -- Spine and Orthopedic Podcast · Scaling Endoscopic Spine Surgery to Protect Rural Access with Dr. Kai Lewandrowski & Dr. Morgan Lorio · 25 Feb 2026 podcast

So integrating the endoscopic technique platform is not as trivial.

And we've learned that from multiple service studies that we've done nationally and internationally.

One of the problems, Carly, that we run into consistently is the endoscopic protocol requires a targeted diagnostic workup.

And again, we published this.

It's discoverable in the Journal of Personalized Medicine.

There are two articles that detail how that's being done.

But it comes down to a lack of insurance authorization for a diagnostic injection right in the first visit.

which based criteria for surgical indication are not accurate enough to determine what the pain generators are.

And a diagnostic injection is critical in determining that to make the case for medical necessity for intervention.

So there's delays with formulating a treatment plan that actually will work within the framework of a local ASC or hospital setting.

Well, it basically takes place, the cost has been shifted out of the ASC.

So instead of having to buy capital equipment on the order of several hundred thousand dollars,

you're bringing in a low cost system that is able to compete with the traditional reprocessable endoscope on a technology level.

We now have chip on tip camera systems that have high resolution, 4K HD, for example,

And there comes sterilely packed.

So the whole processing chain sterilization cleaning is eliminated and the equipment essentially arrives in the peel pack.

And that is something that works really well for low volume sites that are trying to see, does this even work for our local payer mix?

What is the patient volume?

So there's a lot of unpredictable variables at the beginning when somebody starts this, where an institution or facility can find themselves trapped with a lot of equipment expense that they then are not able to amortize.

So if you're having a disposable endoscopic platform, that means that administrators can confidently schedule surgery thing and put days together.

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