Letter to the Editor: New Current Procedural Terminology Codes for Radiofrequency Ablation of Thyroid Nodules Will Negatively Affect American Patients According to the Executive Council of the North American Society for Interventional Thyroidology

Affiliations

• ¹ The Russell Center for Endocrine Health, Columbia, Maryland, USA.
• ² Vice-Chief of Interventional Radiology, Jefferson Radiology, Enfield, Connecticut, USA.
• ³ Stanford University School of Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Palo Alto, California, USA.
• ⁴ Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetes, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Endocrinology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Head and Neck Surgery, MD Anderson, Houston, Texas, USA.
• ⁷ Division of Head and Neck Endocrine Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, National Capital Region, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
• ⁸ Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
• ⁹ Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, New York, USA.
• ¹⁰ Department of Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
• ¹¹ Division of Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
• ¹² Division of Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, NYU Langone Health, New York, New York, USA.
• ¹³ Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
• ¹⁴ Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
• ¹⁵ Department of Surgery, the Florida University School of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA.
• ¹⁶ Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System, Sarasota, Florida, USA.