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...
The March 30 Interim Final Rule with Comment Period added coverage during the Public Health Emergency for audio-only telephone evaluation and management visits (CPT codes 99441, 99442, and 99443) retroactive to March 1. On April 30, a new Physician Fee Schedule was implemented, increasing the payment rate for these codes. Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) will reprocess claims...