February 2006
Dateline: Washington (50K PDF)
- Congress adjourns without enacting payment fix
- Three Fellows testify on Medicare reform
- CMS reduced Medicare overpayments in 2005
- OIG reports on surgical coding issues
- ACS comments on databasesin quality improvement
Error reduction though team leadership: Applying aviation's CRM model in the OR (200K PDF)
Voluntary quality reporting program initiated for physicians (140K PDF)
Political crisis and access to health care: A Nepalese neurosurgical experience (260K PDF)
Fire-safe cigarettes: Reducing the hazards of smoking (135K PDF)
What surgeons should know about... Health plan settlements (80K PDF)
ACOSOG News: Ideas for protocols sought (55K PDF)
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