…With a seat in the House of Delegates came the opportunity to participate as advisors to the CPT Editorial Panel and the RUC beginning in calendar year 2015. ISASS…

…ensure that providers can focus on patient care. There has been significant disruption to the healthcare industry, with providers being asked to delay non-essential surgeries and procedures, other healthcare…

…fusions for DDD, but they also didn’t close the door on approvals for that on appeal. The medical leaders from BCBS-NC also expressed appreciation to the society leaders for…

…the best surgical setting for that individual. Thank you for allowing ISASS the opportunity to comment on this potential action by the Division of Outpatient Care. We look forward…

…one of only four specialty societies with a primary focus on spine. ISASS has been a prominent voice on all spine-related issues that come before the CPT Editorial Panel…

Federal Rule on Electronic Record Interoperability Released The Federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information (ONC) released a final rule related to health information technology (IT) standards…

…procedure)), 22854 (Insertion of intervertebral biomechanical device(s) (eg, synthetic cage, mesh) with integral anterior instrumentation for device anchoring (eg, screws, flanges), when performed, to vertebral corpectomy(ies) (vertebral body resection,…

…for the 2020 site neutral pay cuts. To read the Federal Court ruling, click here: default default #ffffff 1 1 position-statement-on-cervical-and-lumbar-disc-replacements-2019 position-statement-on-cervical-and-lumbar-disc-replacements-2019-5 invasive-sacroiliac-joint-fusion 2020-07-08 2020-08-05 3052 1596838932:8 8…

…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…

…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…

…a hospital’s chargemaster, absent any discounts), The discounted cash price (the charge that applies to an individual who pays cash, or cash equivalent, for a hospital item or service),…

…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…