Physician Regulatory Relief: Breaking the Red Tape to Improve Patient Care
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 We the people of the USA deserve better from our health care system. Whether one is a patient, physician, nurse, or another part of our medical community, […]
Global Pain Initiative: Changing the Way People with Pain are Treated
Christopher J. Winfree, MD, FAANS Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University New York, NY Pain management in American is currently undergoing a renovation. In the early 2000s, it became apparent that undertreated chronic pain was a huge health care problem. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) commissioned a detailed investigation into the status of pain health […]
The Shoe That Fits—Developing and Validating a Risk Assessment Tool Specific to Spine Surgery
Tej Azad (left) Medical Student, Stanford University School of Medicine Palo Alto, CA John Kevin Ratliff, MD, FAANS, FACS (middle) Professor and Vice Chair of Neurosurgery, Departmental Quality Officer and Co-Director of the Spine and Peripheral Nerve Surgery Division, Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA Anand Veeravagu, MD (right) Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Assistant Professor […]
AANS Annual Meeting Spotlight: Idea Economy — It’s Not Brain Surgery
Jessica Rabski, MD (left) Neurosurgical Resident, University of Ottawa Ottawa, Canada Eve C. Tsai, MD, PhD, FAANS, FRCSC (right) Suruchi Bhargava Spine and Brain Regeneration Chair Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute University of Ottawa Ottawa, Canada “My job is not life and death.” These words were spoken by Meg Whitman […]
ACA: Cost, Coverage, Choice and Change
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 must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” – Mary Shelly Memory can trick us all but […]
Health Care Complexity: Surprise Medical Bills Explained
Ezriel Edward Kornel, MD, FAANS Assistant clinical professor of neurosurgery, Weill-Cornell Medical College White Plains, NY It’s no secret that health care is an unbelievable complex subject. One of the most complex issues facing the health care system is that of surprise medical bills. Surprise medical bills happen when: Patients receive emergency care by an […]
Pediatric Neurosurgery, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act
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, MS (right) Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics Duke University Medical Center Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Pediatric Neurosurgery and the Health of Children Once […]
Cross Post – New Health Policy Sourcebook Helps You Navigate 2017
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 we are smack dab in the middle of our focus-month on topics related to health care reform, we wanted to bring attention to a new […]
The ACA’s Seven Year Itch: Repeal, Replace or Repair?
Guest Post from Deborah L. Benzil, MD, FACS, FAANS (left) Vice President, AANS Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations Committee Mount Kismo Medical Group Columbia University Medical Center Mt Kisco, New York Clemens M. Schirmer, MD, PhD, FAANS, FAHA (right) Vice-Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations Committee Geisinger Health System Wilkes Barre, PA On March […]
Virtual Reality in Neurosurgery
Bryan Ladd, MD (left) Neurosurgical Resident, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN Ann M. Parr, MD, PhD, FAANS, FRCSC (middle) Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery and Director, Spinal Neurosurgery University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN Andrew W. Grande, MD, FAANS (right) Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery and Co-director, Earl Grande Stroke and Stem Cell Laboratory University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN According […]