Reimbursement

The new president of the United States will have urgent issues to address, including a health care crisis marked by unsustainable costs without corresponding improvement in quality.

Women surgeons across three surgical subspecialties received lower reimbursement for fee-for-service procedures, submitted less charges and experienced lower practice volume vs. men surgeons, according to study results.

Regulatory burdens, resource deficits, reimbursement rates and the growing list of day-to-day business responsibilities have catalyzed a trend of private physician practices selling or transitioning to larger hospital settings.

Without prompt reform of Medicare reimbursement, which has failed to keep pace with the rising operation costs of rheumatology practice, rheumatologists may have no choice but to opt out of the Medicare program, noted Christina Downey, MD.

AEYE Health has received the first-ever FDA clearance for a fully autonomous AI that can diagnose referable diabetic retinopathy using retinal images taken by a handheld camera, according to a company-issued press release.

SAN FRANCISCO — Despite an increase in the number of prophylactic fixation procedures of the femur performed among Medicare patients from 2000 to 2021, results showed the average reimbursement of this procedure decreased by nearly 50%.

We would see this more readily in the lumbar spine in particular. Currently, many surgeons who do not do lumbar artificial disc replacement still perform cervical disc replacements.

SAN FRANCISCO — With the current trend in reimbursement rates for primary and revision total joint arthroplasty, surgeons may earn below minimum wage for primary TJA by 2030, according to results presented here.

WAILEA, Hawaii — Canaloplasty has shown through the years to be a safe and effective procedure for primary open-angle glaucoma, but more evidence from well-designed studies is needed to support reimbursement, according to one specialist.

WAILEA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye/Retina 2024, Nathan M. Radcliffe, MD, discusses the recent threats to reimbursement for minimally invasive glaucoma surgery procedures.