Variable Accessibility to Consumer Pricing Among Breast Cancer Operations.

Background: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate that every US hospital provide public online pricing information for services rendered. This allows patients to compare prices across hospital systems before establishing care. The goal of this project was to evaluate hospital compliance and patient-level accessibility to price transparency for common breast cancer surgical procedures.

Reimbursement Trends in Reduction Mammoplasty: A Single-Center Analysis of Insurance Reimbursements From 2012 to 2021.

Background: Medicare reimbursement for plastic surgery procedures increased by 2% while inflation increased by 19% in the past decade. Given increasing national breast reduction case volume and the negative impact decreased reimbursements have on surgeon well-being, we sought to evaluate actual surgeon reimbursements for bilateral breast reduction over a decade.

Methods: A retrospective review was performed including all identifiable breast reduction procedures (Current Procedure Terminology 19318) performed at a tertiary academic hospital between October 2011 and September 2021 (fiscal year 2012-2021).

Targeting Two-Pore-Domain Potassium Channels by Mechanical Stretch Instantaneously Modulates Action Potential Transmission in Mouse Sciatic Nerves.

Recent reports indicate dominant roles of TRAAK and TREK-1 channels, i.e., mechanosensitive two-pore-domain potassium channels (K2P) at the nodes of Ranvier for action potential repolarization in mammalian peripheral nerves.