…Certification Criteria final rule, visit: https://www.cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Fact-sheets/2015-Fact-sheets-items/2015-10-06.html Budget Agreement Reached Between Congressional Leaders and Administration In the final days of October, Congressional leaders and the White House struck a deal…

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…About ISASS-International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery is an international, scientific and educational society organized to discuss and…

…IX of the Policy allows coverage of cages for cervical fusion under the following indications: A. Multilevel (three or more vertebral bodies) corpectomy (removal of half or more of…

…Vice President of Medical and Clinical Affairs in the Spinal and Biologics Division of Medtronic, based in Memphis Tennessee. Prior to joining Medtronic, he was President of MidAtlantic Spine…

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…national coverage determination process. The announcement states that the new Transitional Coverage for Emerging Technologies pathway will use a review process parallel with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…

…review as “potentially misvalued”. The following paragraph from the Physician Rule describes the issue and the proposal by CMS: “Overall, based on the six reasons provided by the nominator,…

…is Taiwan’s first FDA-cleared surgical robot and the first handheld robot with a parallel manipulator for orthopedics, according to Point Robotics. The robot has a handheld drilling system and…

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…Quality Reporting Program, Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, and Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program) into a single hospital quality payment program. Implementation of value-based programs for hospital…

On March 24, ISASS sent a letter to the Work Loss Data Institute requesting an update to the outdated Official Disability Guidelines for Sacroiliac Joint (SIJ) pain. ISASS takes…