Publications on Advocacy and Health Policy Issues

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The following publications are available online or as reprints from the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons.

Chartered value exchanges (70K PDF)
by Caitlin Burley (March '08)

The 2008 Medicare fee schedule (80K PDF)
by Cynthia A. Brown (Jaunary '08)

The Trauma Act of 2007 and the future of surgical emergency care (80K PDF)
by Adrienne Roberts (August '07)

Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (95K PDF)
by Jean A. Harris (June '07)

Medical licensure and state regulation of medical practice (85K PDF)
by Jon H. Sutton (March '07)

Responding to reductions in Medicare payment—What's legal, what's not (80K PDF)
by Barbara Peck (Feburary '07)

The 2007 Medicare physician fee schedule (70K PDF)
by Barbara Peck (January '07)

Developments in pay for performance (200K PDF)
by Julie Lewis (November '06)

Trends in Medicare reimbursement (110K PDF)
by Barbara Peck (October '06)

Health plan settlements (100K PDF)
by Carol Scheele (February '06)

The 2006 Medicare fee schedule (145K PDF)
by Cynthia A. Brown (January '06)

The Revised Medicare List of Procedures for ASCs (75K PDF)
by Jean A. Harris (September '05)

What's wrong with the SGR (43K PDF)
by Cynthia A. Brown (October '04)

The next step for quality measurement: Paying for it! (30K PDF)
by Jean A. Harris (August '04)

The new Stark Phase II rules (27K PDF)
by Jean A. Harris (June '04)

The new Medicare drug benefit and related reforms: Part II (26K PDF)
by Beth Fuchs, PhD, and Julie James (May '04)

The new Medicare drug benefit and related reforms: Part I (28K PDF)
by Beth Fuchs, PhD, and Julie James (April '04)

Medical liability reform deep in the heart of Texas (33K PDF)
by Jon H. Sutton (October '03)

The Medicare prescription drug deliberations (17K PDF)
by Jennifer Razor (September '03)

Coding breast procedures and other cancer operations (28K PDF)
by John Preskitt, Albert Bothe, Jr., and Jean A. Harris (May '03)

Antitrust laws (20K PDF)
by Jennifer Razor (April '03)

Health data resources (20K PDF)
by Cynthia Kay Sykes (Sep. '02)

Medicare rules for hospital-based clinics (27K PDF)
by Thomas Ault and John Ferman (Apr. '02)

OSHA regulation of blood-borne pathogens (27K PDF)
by Adrienne Roberts (Feb. '02)

The "five-year review" (30K PDF)
by John O. Gage, MD, FACS, and Diane Krier-Morrow, MBA, MPH (Nov. '00)

Grassroots advocacy at the state level (33K PDF)
by Jon Sutton (June '00)

Federal commissions and advisory committees (31K PDF)
by Adrienne Roberts and Erin La Flair (May '00)

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To order a reprint please call the College at 312-202-5150, or send an E-Mail message to: ahp@facs.org.

Revised March 14, 2008

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