Approximately 10 million Americans currently suffer from osteoporosis (bone disease) and another 44 million have low bone mass, putting them at increased risk of osteoporotic fractures.
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The Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation (BHOF) is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of a new national award to recognize Members of Congress who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, advocacy, and commitment to protect and improve the bone health of Americans.
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NOF and ASBMR partnered to send a comment letter to CMS on the proposed rule updating Medicare Payment under Physician fee Schedule (PFS) (CMS-1751). We also worked on creating a White Paper demonstrating how the FLS model can/should be reimbursed by CMS using the Opioid Usage Disorders (OUD), and subsequently approved additional usage disorders, reimbursement models.
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Secondary fracture prevention intervention such as fracture liaison services are effective for increasing osteoporosis treatment rates, but are not currently widely used in the United States. We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of secondary fracture prevention intervention after osteoporotic fracture for Medicare beneficiaries.
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Osteoporosis, or weakening of the bones, is not often included in discussions of major health policy concerns, yet bone fractures due to osteoporosis are responsible for more hospitalizations than heart attacks, strokes or breast cancer. They are also costly.
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The Biden-Harris Administration has a tremendous opportunity to save lives and reduce health care costs simply by taking administrative action to incentivize more widespread adoption and use of existing strategies, which have been highly effective in preventing these fractures.
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