Tackling the Gordian Knot of Quality Measurement
Guest post from Katie O. Orrico, JD Director, Washington Office American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) From time to time on Neurosurgery Blog you will see us cross-posting or linking to pieces from other places when we believe they involve issues that merit highlighting to our readers. Today’s post originally […]
PQRS and Neurosurgery: The Need to Know
Guest post from Anand Veeravagu, MD (left) Chief Neurosurgery Resident Department of Neurosurgery Stanford University Medical Center Former White House Fellow Stanford, CA and John Ratliff, MD, FAANS, FACS (right) Co-Director, Division of Spine and Peripheral Nerve Surgery Department of Neurosurgery Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA It is changing, yet again. The 2015 Medicare […]
Draft Framework for Repealing the SGR: The Cure May be Worse than the Disease
On Halloween, the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees released a bipartisan, bicameral draft proposal to repeal and replace Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. The proposal would permanently repeal the SGR update mechanism, reform the fee-for-service payment system through greater focus on value over volume, and encourage participation in alternative payment models. […]
Efforts to Repeal the SGR Continue
Over the past few months there has been a lot of activity on the SGR front, and the AANS and CNS have been at the forefront of discussions on the best way to fix Medicare’s flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) payment formula. Neurosurgery is urging Congress to incorporate the following elements in any SGR replacement […]
Neurosurgery Leading the Quality Charge in Spine Care: N2QOD in the News
For today’s post we thought you might be interested in this profile of the National Neurosurgery Quality and Outcomes Database (N2QOD) that was published in Becker’s Spine Review. The article reviews the essential aspects of the program, discusses the broader significance of registry efforts and also points out the broad potential applications of quality programs […]