House Members Urge Action to Avert Cuts to Medicare Physician Payments On October 19, 2021, more than 245 members of the U.S. House of Representatives—both Republicans and Democrats—have joined Representatives Ami Bera (D-California) and Larry Bucshon (R-Indiana) in writing a letter to ask that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy support measures to forestall...

ISASS Urges the White House to Eliminate Electronic Fund Transfer Fees for Medicare Reimbursement On October 14, 2021, ISASS and other organizations representing state medical associations and the nation’s medical specialty societies submitted a letter to the Biden White House to express strong concerns over unfair business practices with respect to electronic payments in health...

HHS Proposed Rule: Updates on Surprise Billing Regulations and Requirements On September 30, 2021, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (the Departments), along with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), issued a second interim final rule with comment period, “Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part II,” to protect consumers from...

ISASS Conducts Member Surveys for Review of New and Established CPT Codes Dear Fellow Surgeon, The American Medical Association RVS Update Committee (RUC) has requested review of physician work for Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes 63020, 63030, and 63035 for laminotomy as well as physician work for lumbar total disc arthroplasty (TDA) single level (CPT...