Read the Winter 2021 issue of “Vertebral Columns” Vertebral Columns continues to focus on topics relevant to your clinical practice as a spine surgeon. This issue highlights the benefits and drawbacks of big data in spine surgery, the cost-effectiveness of image guidance, how to advise patients with preoperative lower extremity weakness caused by lumbar pathology,...
ISASS Signs on to Letter That Opposes Veterans Affairs Non-physician Practitioner Scope of Practice Rule In a letter dated January 7, 2021, ISASS, along with more than 100 medical specialty societies, expressed strong opposition to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) implementation of the interim final rule entitled “Authority of VA Professionals to Practice...
New Administration Releases Health Care–Related Initiatives and Executive Actions On January 22, 2021, President Joe Biden and his administration unveiled several executive orders and memoranda. Executive Orders signed January 21 include: Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats: Establishes a P...
New 2021 Category III CPT Codes for Allogenic Disc Matrix Material On January 1, 2021, three new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for reporting the injection of allogenic disc matrix material went into effect. The three new CPT codes are: 0627T Percutaneous injection of allogeneic cellular and/or tissue-based product, intervertebral disc, unilateral or bilateral...