ISASS and Other Provider Organizations Urge Congress to Include Physician Liability Protections in COVID-19 Relief Legislation On June 2, 2020, multiple organizations, including ISASS, sent a letter to Congressional leadership urging them to include liability protections for physicians in the next COVID-19 relief package—particularly the protections that are included in the bipartisan bill, H.R. 7...
ISASS Supports Letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Requesting Elimination of Budget Neutrality Adjustments to Physician Payments for 2020 On June 30, 2020, multiple organizations, including ISASS, sent a letter to Alex Azar, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to remove budget neutrality negative adjustments under the...
CMS Releases 2021 ICD-10 Procedure Codes for Facility Coding On June 9, 2020, CMS released updated codes in the 2021 ICD-10-Procedure Coding System (PCS). These new codes include surgical procedures for the spine used by many facilities in which ISASS surgeons operate. These new codes will allow greater tracking and appropriate payment for spine surgery...
Position Statement on Cervical and Lumbar Disc Replacements (2019) Authors: Gregory D. Schroeder MD, Alexander R. Vaccaro MD, PhD, MBA, Srikanth N. Divi, MD, Ariana A. Reyes, BS, Dhruv K.C. Goyal, BA, Frank M Phillips MD, Jack Zigler MD Introduction: Cervical and lumbar degenerative disc disease are well known causes of neck and back pain...