The study encompassed the prostatic urethral lift (UroLift), water vapor thermal therapy (Rezum), and temporary implantable nitinol device (iTIND).
In this episode, Richard K. Lee, MD, MBA, discusses the recent European Urology Focus paper, New Endoscopic In-office Surgical Therapies for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: A Systematic Review, for which he served as senior author. Lee is an Associate Professor of Urology and Healthcare Policy & Research at Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Urology in New York City.
Academic, private practice urologists collaborate to change BPH reimbursement
April 1st 2024"We really aimed to affect 3 different contraindications and instead achieved retirement of the entire policy, which, we think, really opens up this wonderful technology to literally hundreds of thousands more patients across the country," says Arpeet Shah, MD.