…2018. icon-camera https://www.isass.org/event_galleries/2018-04-isass18-thursday/ zoomIn flat_box 1/3 https://www.isass.org/event_galleries/2018-04-isass18-friday/slides/DSC_7420.jpg ISASS18 – Friday Friday, April 13, 2018. icon-camera https://www.isass.org/event_galleries/2018-04-isass18-friday/ zoomIn flat_box 1/3…
Read More…Day 1 – Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Announcing ISASS15 Award Winning Papers ISASS15 Coverage – Day 2 – Thursday, April 16, 2015 ISASS15 Coverage – Day 3 – Friday,…
Read More…image 1/1 https://www.isass.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CDA-Cover-FNL.png https://www.isass.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sponsor-Page-FNL.png https://www.ijssurgery.com/content/14/s2 Just Released: Cervical Disc Arthroplasty Special Issue Don’t miss the latest guidance on CDA, including the benefits and limitations of CDA, indications for CDA…
Read More…arrangements, the negotiated price is frequently higher than the final payment to pharmacies. Higher negotiated prices lead to higher beneficiary cost-sharing and faster beneficiary advancement through the Part D…
Read More…one of the 11 episode-based cost measures 35 episodes for the Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary (MSPB) clinician measure 20 beneficiaries for the Total Per Capita Cost (TPCC) measure Field…
Read More…NS patients, S patients had greater improvements from baseline in back pain (-2.2 vs -1.0; P<0.001), leg pain (-3.7 vs -1.7; P<0.001), and sciatica (-11.7 vs -4.6; P<0.001); predominant…
Read MoreOn Nov. 1, as part of the OPPS/ASC Final Rule, CMS also finalized policies on price transparency. These policies follow directives in President Trump’s Executive Order, “Improving Price and…
Read More…Anterior lumbar interbody fusion: Five-year outcomes for patients in the Maverick disc IDE study. North American Spine Society. Orlando, FL, 2010. Gornet MF, Schranck F, Wharton ND, et al….
Read More…of networks before health plans are sold; require states to institute measureable quantitative standards for network adequacy; and include stronger protections for tiered networks. NAIC voted at their fall…
Read More…using German claim data, although the initial cost of the intervention is higher, balloon kyphoplasty is more cost effective than vertebroplasty by providing better pain control and decreasing costs…
Read More…payments—a program established under the Affordable Care Act that aims to mitigate risks for insurers taking on newly insured, costlier patients. “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016”: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-114hr2029enr/pdf/BILLS-114hr2029enr.pdf Patient Access and…
Read More…(http://connect.bcbsnc.com/lets-talk-cost-2013/the-cost-problem/). This site is troubling for several reasons: First, although the website touches upon the very real problem of unsustainable increases in the overall cost of healthcare and enumerates…
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