CMS released the 2026 proposed payment rule for hospital outpatient departments and ASCs on July 15. The agency proposed removing 285 mostly musculoskeletal procedure codes from the inpatient-only ...

Roentgenograms of the cervical spine (Fig. 4) revealed multiple congenital abnormalities. There was a large bony bridge between the 2nd and 3d cervical vertebras, projecting into the pharynx.

We present a novel deep learning method for fully automated detection and classification of the Cervical Vertebrae Maturation (CVM) stages. The deep convolutional neural network consists of three ...