…Califf Confirmation as FDA Commissioner Garners Opposition CMS Announces 2015 PQRS Data Submission Deadlines CMS Updates Open Payments Data and Adds New Features to Website EHR Incentive Programs EHR…

…now so you can avoid a negative 4-percent payment adjustment in 2019. Also on this website, there are links to CMS’ quality measure tools, an example of what a…

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…asked attendees to complete short surveys about their own practice. Your answers to these short surveys are important to help shape ISASS advocacy activities in the months ahead. Thank…

…medical industry to advocate for high quality, widely accessible and cost effective spine care for patients around the world.” Visit IASP at SpinePatientAdvocacy.org 1640527218:7 7 default 1 https://www.isass.org/i/iasp_logo.png 1…

…markup to lower cost services, which has the result of undervaluing high-cost items and overvaluing low-cost items. CMS has taken a series of steps to create additional hospital cost…

…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),…

…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…

…1/1 photo_box 1/1 https://www.isass.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/ISASS_Insights_Banner_-Final-1920×875-1.png story_box 1/1 https://www.isass.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/bar.jpg Upcoming Webinar info_box 3/4 Arthroplasty vs. Fusion in Cervical Spine Surgery: When and Why Date: Saturday, 13th March, 2021 Time: 10:00 am…

…their website.   30% of Medicare Payments Now Tied to Alternative Payment Models On March 3, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an estimated 30 percent…

…mean wage data for calculation of clinical labor rates. The updated data significantly increases the overall pool of direct costs. The direct practice expense data within the PFS is…

…continues to cost the health-care system five years after the fracture occurs. On the other hand, balloon kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty are proven cost-effective in terms of cost-per-quality year gained…