Artist Study: The Compositional Style of Jazz Guitarist Nathen Page

For this project, I have composed three and arranged two compositions for jazz quartet in the style of Page. The featured instrumentation will be guitar, piano, drums, and bass, which is the same instrumentation that Page had used almost exclusively since he first formed his own group. In preparation for writing my compositions and arrangements, I first had to learn Page’s compositions and arrangements by transcribing them from his recordings. In presenting my compositions/arrangements, I will first present the Page composition that my work will be derived from, along with a short written explanation of the song. Then I will present my own work, along with an explanation of how exactly I derived it from the preceding Page composition

United States Medicare Reimbursement Trends for Glaucoma Procedures: 2000 to 2020

PURPOSE: To investigate United States medicare reimbursement trends for common glaucoma procedures from 2000 to 2020. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Current Procedural Terminology codes for Glaucoma procedures in the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services database were used to conduct this economic analysis. Reimbursement data from the Physician Fee Schedule look-up tool from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was compiled for the selected procedures and compensation trends were investigated after adjusting for inflation in 2020 US dollars from the unadjusted data between 2000 to 2020. RESULTS: The average adjusted reimbursement for the analyzed procedures decreased by 20.5% (95% confidence interval [CI], -15.4% to -25.6%) over the twenty-year period. On average, there was a 1.03% decrease in reimbursement rates per year (95% confidence interval [CI], -0.74% to -1.33%) with an adjusted Compound Annual Growth Rate of -1.35% (95% confidence interval [CI], -1.07% to -1.64%). The results show an overall declining rate in reimbursement for the glaucoma procedures analyzed in this study. CONCLUSIONS: United States medicare reimbursement for glaucoma procedures in the United States showed a significant decline between 2000 to 2020. These findings may be relevant to understanding changing practice patterns for glaucoma care