June 2004

  From My Perspective (60K PDF)

 Dateline: Washington (15K PDF)

• Congress prepares for 2006 Medicare cuts
• Higher Education Act due for reauthorization
• "Cover the Uninsured Week" raises awareness
• Oklahoma expands surgical practice for optometrists
• New law provides antitrust exemption for residency match program

The Gloves Are Off: The Aetna and CIGNA settlements: Part I (161K PDF)

Can Cedars-Sinai's "M+M Matrix" Save Surgical Education? (98K PDF)

Is Our Level of Professionalism Where It Should Be? (73K PDF)

Responding To Crisis: Franklin H. Martin, the ACS, and The Great War (406K PDF)

What surgeons should know about...The new Stark Phase II rules (27K PDF)

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• Chapter News
• NTDB^® Data Points
• Socioeconomic tips of the month
• In Compliance... with HIPAA Rules
• What surgeons should know about...
• ACOSOG Articles Published in the ACS Bulletin
• Publications on Advocacy and Health Policy Issues

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