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In April, Medicare Administrator Contractor (MAC) carrier Noridian published Carrier Advisory Committee (CAC) Voting Results for a draft policy on Vertebral Augmentation. The CAC meeting took place in March…

…purposes of state licensure. A hospital qualifies as a “high Medicaid facility” when a hospital: is not the only hospital in a county has an annual percent of total…

On October 2, National Government Services, Inc. (NGS), the Medicare Administrative Contractor covering Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, New York, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, released a…

…to retroactively implement the stricter auditing standards to contracts dating back to 2011. The final rule will only apply to contracts dated from payment year 2018 and up. According…

…rule is less strict than the initial 2018 proposed draft. At that time, CMS proposed to retroactively implement the stricter auditing standards to contracts dating back to 2011. The…

…Available from: www.hta.hca.wa.gov. Weinstein JN, Tosteson TD, Lurie JD, et al. Surgical vs nonoperative treatment for lumbar disk herniation: the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): a randomized trial….

…by thoracolumbar approach) +$351.10 CPT 63307 (vertebral corpectomy, intradural, lumbar or sacral by transpirational or retroperitoneal approach) +$151.34 Important Links Comparison of 2015 RVUs and Reimbursements for Spine Codes…

…of Delegates, which affords us official participation in the AMA/CPT process as well as the Relative Values Update Committee (the “RUC”). Spine patients and their surgeons are experiencing an…

News and noteworthy information for August 2016: Data Collection on Surgical Global Periods Patient Relationship Categories and Codes Anthem Coverage Policy Update – Cervical Total Disc Arthroplasty Multi-Society Letter…

…is a critical component of the Medicare payment methodology. Therefore, thousands of individual physicians will receive a short patient care hours survey from either their practice directly or from…

On November 3, ISASS submitted comments to Novitas Solutions Inc., the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) covering Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Delaware, D.C., Maryland, New Jersey,…