Reply To: Interesting article comparing the costs of open, lap or robotic repair

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Yup. A lot of ways to analyze the pros/cons of robotic inguinal hernia repair.

It’s certainly never been show to be cost effective purely from the surgery/Hospital utilization standpoint. But it the technology has made it so that more surgeons are offering minimally invasive inguinal hernia repairs, which is a good thing, as the alternative would be an open repair with mesh.