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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Project HANDS Needs Anesthesiologists for Several Trips Next Spring
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
OIG Finds Inappropriate Medicare Payments for Transforaminal Epidural Injection Services
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
ASA Submits Comments to CMS FY2011 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule
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Monday, August 23, 2010
ASA Files a Motion to Intervene in the Red Flags Rule Lawsuit
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
President Obama Recognizes the 45th Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
On July 13, 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced two final rules intended to lay the groundwork for the nation’s transition to electronic health records (EHRs).
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Friday, July 09, 2010
On July 7, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new outpatient surgical measure applicable to anesthesiologists to be added to its Hospital Compare website, www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov.
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Friday, July 09, 2010
CMS Releases New Outpatient Measures for the Hospital Compare Website
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Friday, July 09, 2010
FDA has received reports of air or gas embolism occurring during or immediately after application of hemostatic drug or biological products using air- or gas-pressurized sprayers.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
On Monday, July 12, physician and Harvard professor, Donald Berwick, M.D., was sworn in to become the next administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Need to Reinstate Your American Society of Anesthesiologists Membership
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Information about the updated Anesthesia Conversion Factors by locale.
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
TRICARE Recognizes AAsThe Department of Defense today published its final rule authorizing anesthesiologist assistants, supervised by an anesthesiologist, to practice under the TRICARE insurance program.
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Friday, July 02, 2010
A failure of DC (battery) power can result in the inability to deliver defibrillation therapy if the device will not turn on using DC (battery) power and no AC (line) power is available.
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Monday, June 28, 2010
CMS Releases Proposed Rule for 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
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Monday, June 28, 2010
The ACGME released updated proposed standards on resident work hours, supervision, and professionalism announced in the June 23, 2010 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Friday, June 25, 2010
ASA recently nominated two of its members to committees that were established in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
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