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Congress Urges CMS to Increase Global Surgery Code Values

Published: September 27, 2019
Dear Administrator Verma: We are writing to express our strong opposition to a provision in the 2020 Medicare Physician FeeSchedule proposed rule. Specifically, we are very concerned with the proposal […]
  • Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
  • Reimbursement and Practice Management
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Neurosurgery Calls on Congress to Repeal the Medical Device Tax

Published: September 24, 2019
Dear Majority Leader McConnell, Speaker Pelosi, Minority Leader Schumer and MinorityLeader McCarthy: On behalf of the over six hundred innovators, patient groups, physicians, hospitals, venturecapitalists and other stakeholders signed below […]
  • Drugs and Devices
  • Medical Liability Reform
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Neurosurgery Joins Medicine in a Letter to CMS Regarding Prior Authorization

Published: September 20, 2019
Dear Administrator Verma: The undersigned physician organizations support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’(CMS) Patients Over Paperwork initiative and applaud CMS for tackling the challenging issue ofprior authorization (PA) […]
  • Medical Liability Reform
  • Reimbursement and Practice Management
Letters

Neurosurgery Comments on Proposed 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

Published: September 13, 2019
Subject: CMS-1715-P Medicare Program; Revisions to Payment Policies Under thePhysician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2020;Medicare Shared Savings Program Requirements; Quality Payment Program; andMedicaid […]
  • Reimbursement and Practice Management
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Neurosurgeons Statement to the House Committee on Small Business Regarding Utilization Management: Barriers to Care and Burdens on Small Medical Practice

Published: September 11, 2019
Statement for the Recordon behalf of theAmerican Association of Neurological Surgeonsand theCongress of Neurological Surgeonsbefore theCommittee on Small BusinessU.S. House of Representativeson the topic ofUtilization Management: Barriers to Care and […]
  • Medical Liability Reform
  • Reimbursement and Practice Management