August 2001

  From My Perspective (61 K PDF)

  Dateline: Washington (15 K PDF)

• Medicare agency announces changes
• MedPAC raises concerns about physician payment update
• Medicare issues five-year review proposal
• HHS issues guidance on patient privacy protections

  Hopital Lumiere, Hati: A call to care (725K PDF)

  Scope of practice for nonsurgeons keeps expanding (62K PDF)

  Current status of the National Practitioner Data Bank (250K PDF)

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