…letter here. View the final draft model legislation here: http://www.naic.org/documents/committees_b_exposure_draft_proposed_revisions_mcpnama74.pdf New Chairmen for House Ways and Means Committee and Health Subcommittee Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX) has been selected to…

…Models. The RFI and instructions about how to submit comments are available at https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2015-24906.pdf. The comment period, which was originally 30 days and scheduled to close on November 2,…

…Interpore Cross, Acromed. Computer Motion, Endius, Orthologic, Spine Next, Raymedica, SpineVision and Paradigm Spine Research / Inventions / Surgical Techniques Dual Ph.D. (one in Pharmacology and one in Nutrition)…

…for cTDR devices in the US, Prestige ST5 (Medtronic- 541 patients, 32 sites) (2007), Prodisc-C6 (Depuy Synthes- 209 patients, 13 sites) (2008) and Bryan Disc7 (Medtronic- 463 patients, 30…

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…applicable sections on a ISASS Application form. Applications can be downloaded here in PDF format: Download ISASS Application Form Having problems opening the PDF? You may need to download…

…sleeping, pain in the peri- or post-partum period or pain after lumbar spinal fusion. Specific physical examination tests that stress the SI joint (e.g., distraction test, compression test, thigh…

…poor effect sizes and a lack of high-quality evidence for existing treatments.10 A lack of validated diagnostic reference standards or specific imaging biomarkers for the various sources of pain…

…minimally invasive techniques used to treat painful vertebral compression fractures. There is good evidence that these techniques can provide immediate and lasting pain relief (Berlemann et al. 2004; Grafe…

…billion provided to the NIH to develop, validate, improve, and implement testing and associated technologies; to accelerate research, development, and implementation of point-of-care and other rapid testing; and for…

…are based on weak scientific evidence. View the Draft Guidelines: http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=CDC-2015-0112-0002 Submit a Comment to the CDC: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/12/14/2015-31375/proposed-2016-guideline-for-prescribing-opioids-for-chronic-pain#open-comment More Information from the CDC on Prescribing Opioids:…

…from the National Provider Call can be accessed at the following link: https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Outreach/NPC/Downloads/2015-08-27-ICD10-Presentation.pdf. Additionally, in response to questions from the health care community, CMS has released updated “Clarifying Questions…