[senleewashington]

Everything online seems to be conflicting on whether open mesh or robotic mesh is superior in my case.

I’m not really worried about money. But there are workers comp guidelines in my state that I have to abide by. If I don’t, I get zero coverage and benefits from workers comp, disability, and my own insurance for everything related to the injury forever. So, if I get a bad result within workers comp, I get the bad result, but everything else is taken care of. If I get a bad result outside of workers comp, I lose everything. Additionally, my current surgeon is the best general surgeon in the area, and does more hernia repairs overall than anyone else, even though robotic doesn’t seem to be his specialty. If I were to change doctors, which is not simple, all the other surgeons in my area also only do mesh. So a little cost-benefit analysis easily eliminates the idea of going outside of the workers comp system.

So, in short, I’m only concerned with open mesh vs robotic mesh repairs.

[senleewashington]

That sounds pretty severe! Anything besides mesh is not really an option because of workers comp, which is why I’m just concerned between high-volume open mesh vs mid-volume robotic mesh for my particular case.