ASA Submits Letter to CMS on Hospital Interpretive Guidelines
Chicago —
(January 18, 2010)
ASA, under the leadership of President Alex Hannenberg, M.D., submitted a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today stating ASA’s perspective and concerns in regards to the December 11, 2009 revisions to the hospital interpretive guidelines that impact anesthesia services. For a link to the interpretive guidelines, click here.
ASA’s Letter to CMS on Hospital Interpretive Guidelines THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS
Anesthesiologists: Physicians providing the lifeline of modern medicine. Founded in 1905, the American Society of Anesthesiologists is an educational, research and scientific association with 46,000 members organized to raise and maintain the standards of the medical practice of anesthesiology and improve the care of the patient.
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