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AANS and CNS Endorse National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month

Last updated: April 17, 2025
SUBJECT: S. Res. 329, Designating September 2019, as “National Spinal Cord InjuryAwareness Month” Dear Senator Rubio, On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of […]
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Organized Neurosurgery Comments on NINDS Strategic Plan

Last updated: April 17, 2025
SUBJECT: NINDS strategic plan planning process input from national organizedneurological surgical organizations Dear Dr. Schor: On behalf of the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons (AAcNS), American Association ofNeurological Surgeons (AANS), […]
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Neurosurgery Comments on CY 2020 Medicare OPPS/ASC Proposed Rule

Last updated: April 17, 2025
Subject: CMS-1717-P Medicare Program: Calendar Year 2020 Hospital OutpatientProspective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems andQuality Reporting Programs Dear Administrator Verma: On behalf of the American Association of Neurological […]
  • Reimbursement and Practice Management
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Neurosurgery Joins Registry Coalition in Commenting on Medicare Fee Schedule

Last updated: April 17, 2025
RE: Physician Clinical Registry Coalition’s Comments on the Proposed CY 2020Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule andUpdates to the Quality Payment Program (CMS-1715-P) Dear Administrator Verma: […]
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Congress Urges CMS to Increase Global Surgery Code Values

Last updated: April 17, 2025
Dear Administrator Verma: We are writing to express our strong opposition to a provision in the 2020 Medicare Physician FeeSchedule proposed rule. Specifically, we are very concerned with the proposal […]
  • Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
  • Reimbursement and Practice Management
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Neurosurgery Calls on Congress to Repeal the Medical Device Tax

Last updated: April 17, 2025
Dear Majority Leader McConnell, Speaker Pelosi, Minority Leader Schumer and MinorityLeader McCarthy: On behalf of the over six hundred innovators, patient groups, physicians, hospitals, venturecapitalists and other stakeholders signed below […]
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  • Medical Liability Reform
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Neurosurgery Joins Medicine in a Letter to CMS Regarding Prior Authorization

Last updated: April 17, 2025
Dear Administrator Verma: The undersigned physician organizations support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’(CMS) Patients Over Paperwork initiative and applaud CMS for tackling the challenging issue ofprior authorization (PA) […]
  • Medical Liability Reform
  • Reimbursement and Practice Management
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Neurosurgery Comments on Proposed 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

Last updated: April 17, 2025
Subject: CMS-1715-P Medicare Program; Revisions to Payment Policies Under thePhysician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2020;Medicare Shared Savings Program Requirements; Quality Payment Program; andMedicaid […]
  • Reimbursement and Practice Management