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Neurosurgery Joins Multispecialty Pain Workgroup in Letter to First Coast on Coverage for Percutaneous Vertebral Augmentation

Last updated: April 16, 2025

January 28, 2020 First Coast Service Options, Inc.Medical Policy532 Riverside AveROC 19TJacksonville, FL 32202 via email: Medical.Policy@fcso.com Re: Percutaneous Vertebral Augmentation (PVA) for Vertebral CompressionFracture (VCF) (DL34976) To Whom It […]

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Neurosurgery Joins Multispecialty Pain Workgroup in Letter to Novitas on Coverage for Percutaneous Vertebral Augmentation

Last updated: April 16, 2025

January 28, 2020 Novitas Solutions Medical Policy DepartmentSuite 400707 Grant StreetPittsburgh, PA 15219 via email: ProposedLCDComments@novitas-solutions.com Re: Percutaneous Vertebral Augmentation (PVA) for Vertebral CompressionFracture (VCF) (DL35130) To Whom It May […]

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Neurosurgery Sends Letter to Ways and Means Committee on Surprise Medical Bills

Last updated: April 16, 2025

Dear Chairman Neal and Ranking Member Brady, On behalf of the undersigned medical organizations, we want to thank you for your efforts tocraft a balanced, bipartisan solution to end unanticipated […]

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Neurosurgery Sends Letter to Education and Labor Committee on Surprise Medical Bills

Last updated: April 16, 2025

Dear Chairman Scott and Ranking Member Foxx, The medical community remains committed to working with Congress to seek an evenhandedlegislative solution to protect patients from unanticipated (“surprise”) medical bills that […]

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Neurosurgery Joins Coalition in Commenting on Proposed Prior Authorization Reforms

Last updated: April 16, 2025

January 4, 2021 Seema Verma, AdministratorCenters for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesAttention: CMS-9123-PP.O. Box 8016Baltimore, MD 21244-8016 Re: RIN 0938-AT99 Medicaid Program; Patient Protection and Affordable […]

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AANS and CNS Urge CMS to Increase Global Surgery Codes

Last updated: April 16, 2025

December 31, 2019 Seema Verma, MPH, AdministratorCenters for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesU.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesHubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 445–G200 Independence Avenue, SWWashington, DC 20201 Submitted electronically […]

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Neurosurgery Joins Alliance in Asking Congress for Positive Medicare Update

Last updated: April 16, 2025

Dear Chairmen and Ranking Members: The Alliance of Specialty Medicine (the “Alliance”) represents more than 100,000 specialty physiciansand is dedicated to the development of sound federal health care policy that […]

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Neurosurgery Summits Comments to Congress on Cures 2.0 Legislation

Last updated: April 16, 2025

SUBJECT: Comments on Request for Feedback on Cures 2.0 Legislation Dear Reps. DeGette and Upton: On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress ofNeurological Surgeons […]

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Letter to House Leadership Regarding Surprise Medical Bills

Last updated: April 16, 2025

Dear Speaker Pelosi and Leader McCarthy, Thank you for your leadership on addressing the unfortunate practice of “surprise billing,” which leaves patients with unexpected charges after they receive emergency or […]

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Neurosurgical Practices Write Congress on Surprise Medical Bills

Last updated: April 17, 2025

Dear Leader McConnell, Leader Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, and Leader McCarthy: As Congress continues its efforts to protect patients from surprise medical bills, we hope that yourecognize the potentially devastating unintended […]

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