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Fall 2019 Newsletter
Oct 18, 2019AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
In this issue, you will find information on the issue of quality in spine surgery. There are updates from the RUC, Rules and Regulation, Payor Response, and CPT committees. Our colleagues from UCSF provide a spinal cord injury research update. And, as always, there is excellent education on a peripheral nerve topic, this time nerve transfers.

Spring 2019 Newsletter
Apr 26, 2019AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
In this edition, you will find interviews with Drs. Michael Wang, John Wilson, and Rajiv Midha. Dr. Griffin Baum provides an insightful commentary on his experience as a neurosurgeon completing an orthopedic spine surgery fellowship. Drs. T. J. Wilson and Zack Ray educate us on meralgia paresthetica in the Peripheral Nerve Learning Corner. And there are timely updates provided by our volunteer leaders in Coding, Payor Response and Peripheral Nerve.

Winter 2019 Newsletter
Jan 01, 2019AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
In this issue, we present interviews with our Meritorious Award Winners for Neurosurgery, Bob Heary, and Orthopedics, Rolando Garcia, who will both be honored at the Spine Summit this spring. Also, Scott Zuckerman provides a fascinating account of spine surgery medical mission work in Tanzania. In our Peripheral Nerve learning corner, TJ Wilson and Zack Ray describe nerve transfers for spinal cord injury patients. Finally, LuisTumialan, Charlie Sansur and John Ratliff explain how the efforts of the Rapid Response Team of our DSPN Section made a key difference in reversing a critical error in spine surgery coding policy.

Spring 2018 Newsletter
Apr 01, 2018AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
In this issue, we present interviews with our outgoing Chair, Marjorie Wang, and Paul McCormick, the Meritorious Award recipient for Spine at the recent Spine Summit Meeting in Orlando. Also, Bob Harbaugh, Tony Asher and Mo Bydon provide an update on the status of the Quality Outcomes Database. In our Peripheral Nerve learning corner, TJ Wilson and Zack Ray describe nerve transfers for disabling injuries of the upper trunk of the brachial plexus. Finally, John Ratliff elucidates key changes in CPT coding for 2018.

Fall 2017 Newsletter
Oct 01, 2017AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
In this issue, we present interviews with Vince Traynelis and John McGillicuddy, who will be the Meritorious Award recipients for Neurosurgery and Peripheral Nerve, respectively, at the upcoming Spine Summit Meeting in Orlando in March 2018. Also, Mike Wang gives us a look into The Future of Outpatient Lumbar Fusion. In our Peripheral Nerve learning corner, we explore the nuances of the motor examination of the hand that can aid immensely in diagnosing spinal versus peripheral nerve disorders. Finally, we have an update from the Payor Policy Committee.

Spring 2017 Newsletter
Apr 01, 2017AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
In this issue, Rick Fessler gives us an overview of very exciting preliminary results from the ongoing Asterias clinical trial for stem cell transplantation in spinal cord injury. Cheerag Upadhyaya interviews our outgoing Section Chair, Jack Knightly on the eve of the Spine Summit in Las Vegas. Line Jacques speaks with Eric Zager on advances in peripheral nerve care and technology. Also from the Peripheral Nerve corner, Zack Ray and Thomas Wilson offer an excellent and concise review of Parsonage-Turner Syndrome. John Ratliff provides an update from the RUC, and Kurt Eichholz gives us an overview of recent payor and policy issues.

Fall 2016 Newsletter
Oct 01, 2016AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
In this issue, Zo Ghogawala presents an eloquent appraisal of the recent publications on the role of fusion in degenerative spondylolisthesis with stenosis. We also have two excellent interviews: Cheerag Upadhyaya chats with Ed Benzel and Line Jacques speaks with Robert Spinner. From the Peripheral Nerve corner we have a review of traumatic nerve injuries from Zack Ray and Thomas Wilson and an update on peripheral nerve educational offerings. And finally, we have updates on the RUC from John Ratliff and payor policy issues from Kurt Eichholz.

Spring 2016 Newsletter
Apr 01, 2016AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
John O’Toole conducts a Q&A with our Present Chair of the Joint Section, Praveen Mummaneni. We will continue to interview each of the Chairs and other senior EC members in future editions. The Nerve Update has fantastic content in this issue. David Kline, one of the luminaries of nerve surgery, is interviewed by Cheerag Upadhyaya. Zack Ray and Thomas Wilson provide a focused review of hand weakness. Line Jacques and Lynda Yang offer a nerve member update focusing upon course offerings and grant opportunities. Joseph Cheng offers an update of coverage changes relevant to neurosurgical practice. Finally, Bradley Jacobs, Chair of the DSPN Rules and Regulations Committee, has a review of the Rules and Regs changes that are up for review by our membership. We are presenting these changes a second time; they will be voted on during the Business Session of the upcoming DSPN meeting.

Fall 2015 Newsletter
Oct 01, 2015AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
This is the largest newsletter we have published recently; the DSPN is excited to be offering this content to our members. John O’Toole has joined the Newsletter team and conducts a Q&A with our most recent Past Chair of the Joint Section, John Hurlbert. We will try to continue to interview each of the Chairs and Past Chairs in future editions. The Nerve Update expands substantially in this issue. Raj Midha is interviewed by Cheerag Upadhyaya and gives an overview of the history of peripheral nerve in the Joint Section. Zack Ray and Thomas Wilson provide a quick review of the clinical importance of eversion and Interview with inversion. Finally, there is a nerve member update focusing upon course offerings and grant opportunities.

Spring 2015 Newsletter
Apr 01, 2015AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
In this issue, we offer a Q&A between the most recent Past Chair of the Joint Section, Mike Groff, and John Ratliff. We will try to continue to interview each of the Chairs and Past Chairs in future editions. Charles Sansur brings us up to date with recent Rapid Response Team activity. Also new in this issue is a Nerve Update, focusing upon course offerings and grant opportunities from Line Jacques and Lynda Yang. There are a lot of changes in the PQRS system for 2015, these are briefly outlined in this edition and a more thorough review prepared by Rachel Groman of Hart Health Strategies is provided for your review. The financial impact of the changes may be significant. In other good news, we also review recent RUC activity relevant to spine surgeons. In closing and with great sadness, we report the passing of Charlie Kuntz, one of the giants of our Section. His eulogy is attached at the end of our Newsletter. We will be honoring him at the upcoming Spine Section meeting. He will be missed.

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