With the U.S. House of Representatives switching to Democratic control for the first time since 2010, and the Republicans gaining seats in the Senate, the voters in the 2018 midterm…
Guest Post from Deborah L. Benzil, MD, FACS, FAANS Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations Committee Mount Kismo Medical Group Columbia University Medical Center Mt Kisco, New York “Invention, it…
Guest Post from Deborah L. Benzil, MD, FACS, FAANS (left) Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations Committee Mount Kismo Medical Group Columbia University Medical Center Mt Kisco, New York Guest…
Sandi Lam, MD, MBA (left) Associate Professor Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery/Department of Neurosurgery Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine Baylor Center for Ethics and Health Policy Carrie R. Muh, MD,…
From time to time on Neurosurgery Blog, you will see us cross-posting or linking to items from other places when we believe they hit the mark on an issue. Since…
Guest post from Kim Pollock, RN, MBA, CPC, CMDP (left) and Teri Romano, RN, MBA, CPC, CMDP (right) KarenZupko & Associates, Inc. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…
Guest post from Kimon Bekelis, MD Neurosurgical Resident, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has led to sweeping changes in the United States healthcare system,…
Guest post from Catherine A. Mazzola, MD Director of the Craniofacial Center at Atlantic Health Systems-Goryeb Children’s Hospital NJ Pediatric Neuroscience Institute Morristown, NJ As a parent and as a…
Earlier this year, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) released its 2014 legislative agenda, which includes action items such as abolishing the…
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…