USA Health Neurosurgeon Wins National Award

USA Health neurosurgeon Dr. Richard P. Menger has been awarded the Samuel Hassenbusch Young Neurosurgeon Award from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) for his research on how variations in Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement among the states affect access to healthcare. Menger, chief of complex spine surgery at USA Health, is an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama (USA) and an assistant professor of political science at USA. His abstract, “State-to-State Variation in Medicaid and Medicare Reimbursement: Implications for Healthcare Access Among Vulnerable Populations,” will be presented on October 10 at the 2022 CNS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The award is given to the top socioeconomic abstract selected from among the thousands of abstracts submitted to the CNS annual meeting. This research is in collaboration with the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.