Last year, CMS removed 298 musculoskeletal-related services from the inpatient-only list and detailed its plan to phase out all 1,700 procedures from the inpatient-only list by 2024.
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This article is a portion of a book titled "Challenges, Risks and Opportunities in Today's Spine World " edited by Stephen Hochschuler, MD, Frank Phillips, MD, and Richard Fessler, MD. You can find links to the previous chapters at the end…
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Richard Menger, MD, has been a leading researcher on the intersection between economic policy and spine surgery.
Daniel Bohl, MD, will join Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in September, according to a July 20 announcement from the practice.
Ortho Regenerative Technologies has submitted requested data related to its Ortho-R drug to the FDA after the company paused its clinical trial.
Sports medicine physician K.J. Kenneth-Nwosa, MD, has been named head team physician for University of Texas at San Antonio Athletics and assistant professor in the orthopedics department at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
CMS has proposed bringing back the 298 primarily musculoskeletal-related services removed this year from its inpatient-only list for 2022.
Chalfont-based Pennsylvania Pain and Spine Institute will have a new physician join in August, according to a July 20 news release.