Now that the dog days of summer have ended, those of us in and around Washington have returned to face the same budget battles Congress put off earlier in the…
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Earlier this month, the AANS and CNS submitted several comment letters to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding a number of issues contained in the proposed 2014…
From time to time on Neurosurgery Blog you will see us cross-posting pieces from other health blogs when we believe they really hit the mark on an issue. Today’s post…
The Congress Quarterly (cnsq) is the official newsmagazine of the CNS and is designed to reflect the changing nature of neurosurgery and foster discussion about the core being of the…
Starting on Aug. 1, 2013, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which was part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), will require manufacturers of drugs, medical devices and biologics to report…
In the recently published July/August edition of Washington Monthly an article by Haley Sweetland Edwards entitled, “Special Deal” is completely outrageous in its attempt to paint specialists as a “shadowy…
For many years, healthcare policy researchers have put forward the notion that Medicare spending variations across the U.S. are solely due to wasteful practices and overtreatment — an idea that…
Neurosurgery Blog would like to Congratulate Maya Babu, MD, MBA, a fourth-year neurosurgical resident at the Mayo Clinic, who was elected to fill the resident-fellow slot on the American Medical…
Today, by a vote of 51 to zero, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed H.R. 2810, the Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act. This bipartisan legislation to repeal…
Nearly 800,000 Americans a year suffer a stroke, a catastrophic event that does not discriminate based on title or position. And though the vast majority of stroke victims survive, recovery…