Lumbar stenosis: clinical case

Sá, Pedro; Marques, Pedro; Alpoim, Bruno; Rodrigues, Elisa da Conceição; Félix, António; Silva, Luís; Leal, Miguel A.

doi:10.1016/j.rboe.2014.04.014

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“…Частота повторної операції при СХК на поперековому рівні -близько 10 % залежно від рецидивного або первинного СХК, первинних або рецидивних гриж МХД, переломів фасеткових суглобів тощо [50,51]. Також відомо, що після операції частота незадовільних результатів збільшується із часом [8,52].…”

Section: Ukrainian Neurosurgical Journal Vol 26 N1 2020unclassified

Surgical treatment of the lumbar disc herniation complicated by lumbar spinal stenosis

Khyzhnyak¹,

Ksenzov²,

Ksenzov³

2020

Ukr Neurosurg J

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Відділення малоінвазивної і лазерної нейрохірургії з рентгенопераційною, Інститут нейрохірургії ім. акад. А.П. Ромоданова НАМН України, Київ, Україна 2 Відділення нейрохірургії з ліжками інтенсивної терапії, КУ «Запорізька обласна клінічна лікарня» ЗОР,

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Section: Ukrainian Neurosurgical Journal Vol 26 N1 2020unclassified

Surgical treatment of the lumbar disc herniation complicated by lumbar spinal stenosis

Khyzhnyak¹,

Ksenzov²,

Ksenzov³

2020

Ukr Neurosurg J

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Determination of Work Relative Value Units for Management of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis by Open Decompression and Interlaminar Stabilization

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Background: Effective January 1, 2017, open surgical decompression and interlaminar stabilization (ILS) received a Category I Current Procedural Terminology (CPTt) code 22867. The current work relative value units (wRVUs) assigned to the procedure of 13.5 are not reflective of the amount of work involved. During the survey process, CPTt 22867 was erroneously assessed with a percutaneous ''sister'' code (CPTt 22869), which is performed with no decompression (but within the same new ''family'') and primarily by nonsurgeons. However, similar CPTt code descriptors assigned to each of these new codes undermined their procedural differences during the survey process and generated confusion among physician survey responders, the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), and ultimately the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the value of ILS. The resulting physician payment determination for the ILS procedure has had severe deleterious effects on this procedure being offered to lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) patients. Our independent societydriven survey presents new data that assess the accuracy of the assigned wRVUs for CPTt 22867.Methods: An independent survey was driven by the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery (ISASS) in November 2018 and sent to 58 US surgeons with experience performing open decompression with ILS (CPTt 22867) and without financial conflicts of interest as analogous to RUC survey financial disclosure requests.Respondents were asked to compare CPTt 22867 with a list of 10 other comparator CPTt codes reflective of common spine surgeries. The survey presented each comparator CPTt code with its code descriptor and corresponding wRVUs alongside the code descriptor for CPTt 22867. A patient vignette was also provided that describes a typical clinical scenario for the surveyed procedure. Respondents were then asked to indicate which comparator CPTt code on the reference list is most similar to the survey code descriptor and typical patient/service vignette provided, as well as specify estimated wRVUs for CPTt 22867 relative to their selected comparator CPTt code. The surgeons' responses were analyzed to determine comparator CPTt codes and estimated wRVUs.Results: Among the 28 surgeons who responded to the survey, both open decompression codes (57.1%) and fusion codes (42.9%) were chosen as most similar to the typical patient/service for CPTt 22867. Furthermore, the laminectomy procedure (CPTt 63047) was chosen as the surveyed surgeons' model response for a reference procedure in terms of similar work intensity and time for CPTt 22867. After calculating the difference between the selected comparator codes and estimated wRVUs, nearly all respondents had a positive calculated difference, indicating that surgeons selected wRVUs lower than they deemed appropriate as a result of the listed CPTt codes they were required to use. In the spirit of the Rasch analysis, the regression analysis estimated wRVUs for CPTt 22867 ...

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Lumbar stenosis: clinical case

Cited by 2 publications

References 13 publications

Surgical treatment of the lumbar disc herniation complicated by lumbar spinal stenosis

Surgical treatment of the lumbar disc herniation complicated by lumbar spinal stenosis

Determination of Work Relative Value Units for Management of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis by Open Decompression and Interlaminar Stabilization

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