Category: CEEG Monitoring
CMS Physician Fee Schedule for Long-Term EEG – 2023 Update
In November 2022 CMS published the Physician Fee Schedule for CY 2023 with a PFS Conversion Factor of $33.06. Congress revised this in December 2022 and modified the reduction from a 4.5% to a 2% cut from the 2022 rate. The conversion factor for 2023 is $33.8872.
Read MoreCortiCap Use Case – CEEG in the NICU
The Challenge Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE) is the leading cause of seizures in the neonate. Amplitude Integrated EEG (aiEEG) is often employed when EEG techs are not available. aiEEG traces can […]
Read MoreCortiCap Use Case – Children’s Hospital with Difficult Patient
The Challenge This may be a more common occurrence than recognized. At a children’s hospital, a young patient on the autism spectrum would not lie down or sit still for […]
Read MoreCortiCap Use Case – Need for a Late Shift EEG with No EEG Technologist Available
The Challenge: A common situation at hospitals nationwide is a growing demand to initiate EEG monitoring in Critical Care Units as quickly as possible at any time of the day. […]
Read MoreEEG – A Powerful and Often Overlooked Diagnostic Tool
EEG tests and EEG monitoring are currently underused when it comes to identifying common diseases and performing neurological assessments in hospital patients, particularly in the United States and Canada. The expanded use of EEG can assist clinicians in making an accurate diagnosis, neurological assessment, or prognosis in patients.
Read MoreThe Utility of EEG in Clinical Trials
EEG plays an important role in inclusion/exclusion criteria for safety and efficacy evaluations and as biomarkers in clinical trials. Given the heterogeneity of understanding of the strengths and the limitations of EEG in this context, we provide a brief commentary to inform drug sponsors, contract research organizations, and academic partners on some of the questions to consider.
Read MoreHow Continuous EEG Monitoring Improves Patient Management
Electroencephalogram dates back more than a century, but only in the last few decades has technology afforded us the opportunity to explore the full potential of continuous EEG (cEEG). In […]
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