Vertebral Columns Fall 2024 Issue This latest installment of Vertebral Columns features a perspective on spine surgeons’ use of TikTok as a way to engage with and teach patients; however, care must be taken to avoid some pitfalls of having a highly visible social media presence. Other articles in this issue cover topics ranging from...
ISASS Important Update GREAT NEWS: ISASS has successfully met the requirements to maintain our seat on the AMA House of Delegates, ensuring that the society has representation at both the CPT and RUC advisory panels. Every five years, the AMA reviews the membership of the specialty societies to ensure that the requirements for this important seat...
Medicare 2025 Inpatient Final Rule The Medicare 2025 Inpatient Final Rule was released on August 1, 2024. ISASS made significant comments to the proposed rule. Here is how those issues were addressed in the final rule: CMS proposed creating eight new MS-DRGs to delineate single versus multi-level lumbar fusion, as well as to accommodate the...
Medicare 2025 Outpatient and Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rules The Medicare 2025 Hospital Outpatient and Physician Proposed Rules were released earlier this month. ISASS will be commenting by September 9, 2024 on a number of spine surgery-related issues in the proposed Physician rule in particular, including the following: The osteotomy CPT codes (22210, 22212, 22214,...