Medicare and Medicaid

Research on medicare and medicaid published by scientists at Yale University, Medical Department

Published in Elder Law Weekly, September 24th, 2008

According to a study from the United States, "Retrospective case-control study/economic analysis. To determine the treatment times required for isolated lumbar decompressions and for combined decompression and instrumented fusion procedures to compare the relative reimbursements for each type of operation as a function of time expenditure by the Surgeon."

"Under current Medicare fee schedules, the payment For a fusion procedure is higher than of an isolated decompression. It has been recently Suggested in the lay press that the greater reimbursement for a lumbar arthrodesis may inappropriately influence the manner in which surgeons elect to treat lumbar degenerative...

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Source: Elder Law Weekly (2008-09-24)

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