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,...
New ICD-10 Diagnosis Codes for Discogenic Pain As we noted in our last Advocacy Alert, the ICD-10 Coding Committee released a new set of diagnosis codes created specifically to describe intervertebral disc degeneration with discogenic pain. These new codes were finalized last month and are effective for reporting by physicians, hospitals, and ASC’s October 1, 2024. For more information...