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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
ASA will not support pending Medicare physician payment provisions that are part of H.R. 4213, the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
CMS Issues Additional Clarification of the Hospital Interpretive Guidelines for Anesthesia Services
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Ortho-McNeil-Janssen and FDA notified healthcare professionals of changes to the Warnings section of the prescribing information for tramadol, a centrally acting synthetic opioid analgesic indicated for the management of moderate to moderately severe chronic pain.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Congressional Democrats have begun to craft legislation to avert the again pending 21% cut in Medicare physician payments.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
A new study reviews the implications of cardiac problems on postoperative outcomes, exploring preoperative diagnosis and impact of asymptomatic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction in vascular surgery patients.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Eleven of the leading medical societies in the country joined together today to publicly support the introduction of the Healthcare Truth and Transparency Act of 2010.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
GE and FDA notified healthcare professionals of a Class I Recall of specific lots of the Aisys and Avance Anesthesia Systems.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
The U.S. House of Representatives is seeking support for a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services requesting a review of the accuracy of Medicare’s payments for anesthesia services.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
FDA and Teleflex Medical notified healthcare professionals of a worldwide voluntary recall affecting certain lot numbers of the Teleflex Medical AQUA+FLEX Hygroscopic Condenser Humidifier
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
FDA and Coviden recalled of certain lots of its cuffed ShileyTM tracheostomy tubes and Custom/Specialty tracheostomy tubes.
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Friday, April 23, 2010
On April 23, 2010 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hosted a stakeholder call to provide an update about the ongoing shortage of propofol and other anesthetic drugs.
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Friday, April 23, 2010
ICU patients with iron deficiency are more likely to require a blood transfusion.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Johnson & Johnson, parent company of Ethicon Endo Surgery, Inc., announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejected its application for the SEDASYS® Computer-Assisted Personalized Sedation System.
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Friday, April 16, 2010
S.B. 479 makes it unlawful to practice or offer to practice interventional pain management unless such individual is a licensed MD or DO.
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Friday, April 16, 2010
This legislation includes a reinstating of Medicare physician payment rates as they were on March 31, and postponing the 21 percent cut until May 31, 2010.
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
CMS announces Medicare cuts in effect until such time as Congress acts.
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Monday, April 05, 2010
With the signing of H.R. 4872 and the earlier enactment of H.R. 3950, the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA),” health reform as we know it is now law.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Wall Street Journal Reports Teva Will Stop Making Propofol
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The American Society of Anesthesiologists joins communities across the United States today to recognize Doctors Day 2010, a day with a special tie to anesthesiology.
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