Objective In response to rising national health expenditures, the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010, with major provisions implemented in 2014 …

BACKGROUND: An estimated 50 million Americans receive Medicare health care coverage.
Prior studies have established a downward trend in Medicare reimbursement for commonly …

OBJECTIVE There is currently a paucity of literature evaluating procedural reimbursements
and financial trends in neurosurgery. A comprehensive understanding of the economic …

Although we as physicians have developed knowledge and expertise in reporting and
analyzing clinical outcome, costs remain for most neurosurgeons a no-man's-land, or …

Sponsored by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the
Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), the Washington Committee for Neurosurgery …

Neurosurgeons provide direct individualized care to patients. However, the majority of
regulations affecting the relative value of patient-related care are drafted by policy experts …

OBJECTIVE The Massachusetts health care insurance reform law passed in 2006 has many
similarities to the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA). To address concerns that the ACA …

BACKGROUND Established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the
Open Payments Database (OPD) has reported industry payments to physicians since …

BACKGROUND Trends in Medicare billing and procedural reimbursement for outpatient
office visits remain unclear within the field of neurosurgery. OBJECTIVE To analyze financial …

Background The objective of this study was to identify the neurosurgical MS-DRGs highest
national bills and to analyze economic, demographic, and patient outcome trends. Methods …