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Understanding Value-Based Healthcare

Gary D. VanderArk, MD, FAANS | Bookshelf

"Understanding Value-Based Healthcare." Christopher Moriates, MD; Vineet Arora, MD; Neel Shah, MD. McGraw-Hill Education. New York. 2015. Get ready for the switch from volume to value! This book is the best-to-date at defining the …

Listen to the Patient, Of Life and Neurosurgery

Rebecca Artz | Timeline

Like most neurosurgeons, I have experienced thrill and exhilaration when my healing efforts succeeded and desolation when they failed. I give equal time to both. In spite of much progress in diagnostic tools and surgical …

Financial Forethought: ACOs, Mergers and Acquisitions

Maya Babu, MD, MBA | Financial Forethought

ACOs and Mergers Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is a network of doctors and hospitals that share financial and medical responsibility for providing coordinated care to reduce spending (1). …

Accountable Care Organizations and Pay for Performance in Academic Neurosurgery

Robert J. Bollo, MD, MS, FAANS, FAAP | Practice Management

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect in the U.S. in March 2010, and phased implementation is scheduled through January 2018. The need for reform is clear: health care spending per …

Medical Socioeconomics: Why (and When) Should Residents Care?

Tyler J. Kenning, MD, FAANS | Resident's Forum

Capitation? Fee-for-service? Third party payors? Current procedural terminology codes? These typically seem like very foreign topics to neurosurgical residents who spend the seven or more years of their training attempting to assimilate advanced surgical techniques …

Maintaining Patient Safety in an Era of Health Care Consolidation

Kristopher Kimmell, MD | Patient Safety

“Who is your doctor?” This question is often asked by friends or acquaintances when the subject of health arises or perhaps when someone moves to a new city and is seeking a new physician for …

The Impact of MIPS on Neurosurgery

John Kevin Ratliff, MD, FAANS | Coding Clarity

I would like to take a few minutes to review a new payment model that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced recently that impacts our orthopaedic colleagues. The new proposed policies for …

Mergers, ACOs, Acquisitions...

Michael Schulder, MD, FAANS | Editorial License

Gosh darn it (you may be thinking), I did not work so hard through eight years of college and medical school, seven years of neurosurgical residency and maybe a year (or two?) of fellowship just …

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