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Taylor Spatial Frame

Patients’ access to new and often cost saving technology often depends, in part, on adequate payment. A careful analysis of a product’s economic effects on providers, payers and patients often reveals barriers to widespread acceptance, which can affect patient access to the therapy. Our analysis of the reimbursement environment for the Taylor Spatial Frame (TSF) revealed that computer dependent external fixation requires specific resources and physician interventions that are not required for standard, non-computer dependent external fixators. The work for computer-dependent external fixation is not reflected in the codes available to physicians to bill for the application of the TSF. In addition there is no mechanism in place for physicians to bill and receive payment for the TSF struts when the indicated strut changes are performed. We have applied for and received a new CPT code for application of computerized external fixation and for computerized external fixation strut changes.