August 2006
  From My Perspective (80K PDF)
Dateline: Washington (50K PDF)
- College leads effort to address workforce shortage
- ACS comments on performance measurement
- CMS posts hospital payment data
- CMS updates policy on undocumented aliens
- Aetna to pay claims with modifier –25
- Work group releases interim recommendations
A growing crisis in patient access to emergency surgical care (440K PDF)
Heal thyself (185K PDF)
Anesthesiologist Assistants: Making the operating room more accessible and manageable (145K PDF)
ACS leadership in the field of sports concussion (200K PDF)
In compliance... with HIPAA's NPI provisions—Part III (65K PDF)
Statement on Principles of Patient Education
ACOSOG news: Revisiting local excision of early rectal cancer (140K PDF)
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