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Neurosurgery Position Statement on AO Spine/PRAXIS Acute Spinal Cord Injury Guidelines

Last updated: May 20, 2024
BackgroundCervical spinal cord injuries (cSCI) are catastrophic events for patients that often require surgical intervention to decompress the spinal cord and/or stabilize the spine. The current literature has clearly established the role of surgical intervention in these injuries. Based on the most recent AANS/CNS guidelines, there is presently insufficient evidence to support a recommendation regarding […]
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Neurosurgery Joins in Testimony to Senate on Medicare Payment Reform

Last updated: June 10, 2024
Alliance of Specialty Medicine Statement for the Record Senate Finance Committee Hearing“Bolstering Chronic Care through Medicare Physician Payment” The Alliance of Specialty Medicine (“Alliance”), a coalition of 16 medical specialty organizations representing more than 100,000 specialty physicians, is deeply committed to improving access to specialty medical care through the advancement of sound health policy. We […]
  • Reimbursement and Practice Management
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Neurosurgery Issues Position Statement on Firearms

Last updated: July 1, 2024
In 2023, the Washington Committee Firearms Task Force conducted a survey of AANS and CNS members regarding their views and experience with firearms and opinions regarding the involvement of organized neurosurgery in advocacy efforts to reduce firearm injury and death and to make firearm ownership as safe as possible. On Jan. 2, the AANS and the CNS […]
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Neurosurgery’s Statement on the Events in the Middle East

Last updated: July 1, 2024
Organized Neurosurgery’s Statement on the Events in the Middle East As neurosurgical professional organizations, we are shocked and saddened by the events occurring in Israel and the Gaza Strip, resulting in the loss of innocent lives and widespread fear and suffering. We strongly condemn this terrorist attack on Israeli civilians and thehorrific systematic and intentional […]
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Summary of Proposed 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

Last updated: June 11, 2024
2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule Summary Overview On July 13, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Proposed Rule. According to the proposal, the proposed rule’s relative value unit (RVU) provisions will result in an overall -1% cut in neurosurgery payments. In addition […]
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Neurosurgery Joins Coalition in Urging Congress to Repeal Ban on Physician-Led Hospitals

Last updated: June 13, 2024
Physician-Led Hospitals Coalition Letter We, the undersigned organizations, representing physicians and patients, support the Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act (S. 470/H.R. 977), introduced by Senator James Lankford (R-OK), Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) and Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX). The legislation would improve patient access to high quality physicians and hospital services, […]
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Surgical Coalition Outlines Plan for Reforming Medicare Payment System

Last updated: June 11, 2024
Surgical Coalition’s Plan for Reforming the Medicare Physician Payment System The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to put forth annual regulations that exacerbate the underlying problems within the broken Medicare physician payment system. Furthermore, these policies negatively impact the ability of physician practices to invest in quality improvement efforts to benefit Medicare […]
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Neurosurgery Joins Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research to Support FY 2024 NIH Funding

Last updated: June 10, 2024
The Ad Hoc Group Fiscal Year 2024 Recommendation The 373 undersigned members of the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research, which includes organizations representing patients, scientists, health professionals, research and academic institutions, educators, and industry, are grateful to Congress for making meaningful annual funding growth for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a key, bipartisan […]
  • Biomedical Research
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AANS and CNS Recommend $49 Billion for NIH in FY 2023

Last updated: June 10, 2024
The Ad Hoc Group Fiscal Year 2023 Recommendation The 369 undersigned members of the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research, which includes organizations representing patients, scientists, health professionals, research and academic institutions, educators, and industry, are grateful to Congress for making meaningful annual funding growth for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a key, bipartisan […]
  • Biomedical Research
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Summary of the Proposed 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

Last updated: June 26, 2024
Overview On July 7, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CY 2023 Revisions to Payment Policies under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) and Other Changes to Part B Payment Policies [CMS-1770-P] Proposed Rule. CMS shows the impact of the provisions of the rule to be a zero percent change […]
  • Reimbursement and Practice Management