February 2007

  From My Perspective (80K PDF)

 Dateline: Washington (50K PDF)

• Senate passes Medicare relief package
• Heritage Foundation calls for reform
• Medicare posts outpatient cost data

   What surgeons should know about... Responding to reductions in Medicare payment—What's legal, what's not (80K PDF)

   Rural Surgical Practice: A personal perspective (280K PDF)

   2006 midterm elections bring dramatic change (120K PDF)

   Report from the Committee on Diversity Issues (295K PDF)

   In compliance... with hospital CoP and medically unbelievable edits (65K PDF)

More Bulletin Articles

• 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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