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From the Washington Office: Upcoming Leadership and Advocacy Summit
The American College of Surgeons Leadership and Advocacy Summit is happening in Washington DC.
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From the Washington Office: An opportunity to address policymakers on the concerns of Fellows
Dr. Patrick Bailey participated in a roundtable discussion on Capitol Hill with members of the House Ways and Means Committee on the topic of...
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From the Washington Office: Gratifying success for ACS legislative advocacy efforts
The ACS was successful in its efforts to get the Senate to consider a much-improved version of the Continuing Resolution.
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From the Washington Office: MIPS 2018 … Determining your status, making your plan
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that approximately 40% percent of eligible clinicians will be required to submit data under MIPS...
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From the Washington Office: Year Two of MIPS …The song remains the same (largely)
For 2018, we still expect that the majority of surgeons eligible to participate in the QPP will do so via the MIPS pathway.
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From the Washington Office: Taking action
Three “must pass” bills are moving through the legislative process on Capitol Hill that are of interest to surgeons.
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From the Washington Office: Lessons learned from a faithful reader – A tribute to Daniel M. Caruso, MD, FACS
Dr. Daniel M. Caruso had an unsurpassed passion for training the next generation of surgeons, paying it forward into the future as he went.
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From the Washington Office: Receiving an increase in Medicare payment and avoiding a penalty
It is so easy to avoid a penalty that no surgeon should be resigned to accepting a penalty without having a look at the minimal reporting...
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From the Washington Office: The Mission Zero Act
Surgeons are well familiar with the statistic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identifying trauma as the leading cause of...
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From the Washington Office: Ensuring an adequate surgical workforce in underserved areas
The Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2017 (S.1351 and H.R.2906) was recently introduced in both the Senate and the House of...
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From the Washington Office: Reporting global codes data in 2017
On July 1, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin requiring practitioners in nine states who are part of groups of...