June 2005

  From My Perspective (60K PDF)

 Dateline: Washington (40K PDF)

• CMS projects decrease in Medicare payments
• Efforts under way to reauthorize EMSC program
• ACS testifies on chronic wound care
• Fellows appointed to new EMTALA advisory group
• College testifies on silicone breast implants before FDA

  Advanced Trauma Operative Management course introduced to surgeons in West Africa (385K PDF)

  Called to serve as a consultant in the OR? What to do: (135K PDF)

  Aging and the practice of surgery (160K PDF)

 In compliance... with HIPAA's NPI provisions (50K 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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