March 2001

  From My Perspective (61 K PDF)

  Dateline: Washington (15 K PDF)

• Patients' Bill of Rights continues to rank high on policy agenda
• HCFA announes new Medicare survey
• OIG releases reports on EMTALA
• HCFA announces change in anesthesia supervision rules

  John H. Gibbon, Jr., Lecture: Introductory remarks (25K PDF)

  John H. Gibbon, Jr., Lecture: Leadership in medicine (70K PDF)

  The 106th Congress: A review of the second session (275K PDF)

  Socioeconomic tip of the month: Coding for endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (22K PDF)

  What surgeons should know aobut...The OIG's compliance guidance for individual and small group practices (29K PDF)

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