…sites of service. These services include but are not limited to visits, surgical procedures, diagnostic tests, therapy services, and specified preventive services. CMS will accept comments on the proposed…

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…chronic low back pain, a leading cause of disability and the most frequent reason adults seek medical care. The funding announcement will seek patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness projects, soliciting…

…from a superficial swab, can be an obvious reason for a false negative. Even in the case of a technically well-procured nasopharyngeal sample, it is important to understand the…

…quicker improvements in quality of care. This also benefits small and rural hospitals by allowing them to draw from the resources and clinical expertise of a larger hospital system….

…3.10 or approximately 33%. In addition, the Total RVUS for CPT 27279 changed from 2019 to 2020 from 19.99 to 25.34. These increases have long been advocated by ISASS…

…was invited to serve as Deputy Editor of Society Guidelines for the International Journal of Spine Surgery (IJSS). He has also contributed his spinal expertise internationally as a lecturer…

…expensive care occur with worse outcomes than hospital settings; rather, they must be cost-effective centers with quantifiable improved care. Hospital or Freestanding ASCs Some hospitals have their own ASCs…

…found here: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/covid-flexibility-reopen-essential-non-covid-services.pdf The Guidelines for Opening Up America Again can be found here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/openingamerica/#criteria These actions, and earlier CMS actions in response to COVID-19, are part of the…

…contacts to contain community transmission. Each time a new case was identified, local governments used contact tracing to quarantine potential carriers and publicly disclosed their individual travel histories in…

…that are to be distributed by the federal government, a product called BinaxNOW manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, do not require specialized equipment and can yield results within 15 minutes,…

…intervertebral disc, any method utilizing needle-based technique to remove disc material under fluoroscopic imaging or other form of indirect visualization, with discography and/or epidural injection(s) at the treated level(s),…