February 2006

  From My Perspective (80K PDF)

 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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• 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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