You shouldn’t have to choose between
the best surgery and going home the same day.
Patients travel to Naples, FL for outpatient and next-day-discharge spine surgery that isn’t available everywhere. Fellowship-trained at Barrow Neurological Institute. No residents. Dr. Katsevman performs every surgery start to finish.
Outpatient spine surgery.
Not available everywhere.
Most spine surgery is still performed at large hospital systems with overnight or multi-day stays. Minimally invasive techniques change that equation — smaller incisions, less muscle disruption, faster recovery. Combined with a dedicated outpatient surgery center and a surgeon who trained at one of the top neurosurgical programs in the country, the trip becomes rational.
Fifteen procedures.
All outpatient or next-day.
Every procedure below is performed at NASA Surgery Center of Naples as an outpatient or next-day-discharge surgery. Some cases are performed at Physicians Regional Medical Center or NCH based on clinical complexity.
Surgery is the procedure.
Recovery is the program.
Most patients leave the OR and recover with standard PT. The biological augmentation available here changes that equation — before, during, and after surgery.
From imaging submission
to flying home.
The logistics of traveling for spine surgery are straightforward once you understand the sequence. Here is the typical path for an out-of-state patient.
Ready to find out
if you’re a candidate?
The fastest path to an answer is imaging review. Upload your MRI or CT and complete the consultation request — Dr. Katsevman reviews every case personally before responding.
Submit your imaging
Upload MRI, CT, or X-ray files securely via the imaging portal. Include any prior surgical records or radiology reports if available. All imaging formats accepted.
After imaging review, a virtual consultation is scheduled to discuss your case, surgical options, and whether traveling to Naples makes sense for your situation.
Request a Consultation Submit Imaging →You don’t have to go home
to recover.
Most outpatient spine procedures require 3–7 days in Naples before you can fly. That is not a waiting period. That is a recovery in one of the most beautiful places in the country to do it.
February in Ohio means cold, ice, and staying indoors. February in Naples means 75°, sunshine, and a short walk to the Gulf. Early spine recovery is built on gentle movement, walking, and getting outside. Naples makes all of that easy. The patients who do it here recover differently than the ones who go home.
Flat, warm, calm water. Fine white sand that gives just enough to make walking therapeutic without being unstable. The beach at Naples is genuinely one of the best post-surgical walking environments that exists. Most patients are on the beach within 48 hours of their procedure.
NASA Surgery Center of Naples, your hotel, the beach, world-class restaurants on Fifth Avenue South — all within minutes of each other. You are not navigating a major city post-op. Naples is small enough to be easy and beautiful enough to make the recovery something you actually look forward to.
Recovery in Naples is not just waiting to fly home. OutRecover — our recovery facility — uses compression therapy, red light, infrared sauna, contrast therapy, and targeted recovery modalities to accelerate what your body is already doing. Most patients leave Naples feeling better than they expected to at this stage.
“Most of my out-of-state patients tell me the same thing afterward. They wish they had stayed longer.”
— Dr. KatsevmanAcross the US
and internationally.
Patients travel to Naples from across Florida, every US state, and internationally. Each link below goes to a dedicated page for patients from that region — travel logistics, what to expect, and how care is coordinated from a distance.
What patients say
after traveling to Naples.
The surgery exists.
The question is where to have it.
Submit your imaging and find out if minimally invasive outpatient spine surgery in Naples is the right choice for your situation.