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Although reduced reimbursement for acromioplasty has negatively impacted me financially, it has not impacted my patients.

The value of an acromioplasty, or subacromial decompression, is controversial and currently not supported as routine or essential for value-based care to manage impingement syndrome or rotator cuff disease symptoms.

Surgeons have performed acromioplasty to reduce pain and prevent rotator cuff disease progression since the 1970s. However, in the past decade, a number of randomized trials have brought the appropriate use of acromioplasty into question.