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AHRQ Safety Program for ISCR expands scope to include emergency general surgery in 2020(0)
January 1, 2020
This month’s cover story describes the origin and future direction of the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery and summarizes findings from three hospitals that have successfully implemented the program.
Clinical Congress 2019 highlights
This Clinical Congress 2019 wrap-up summarizes key events at the annual meeting, Convocation, Named Lectures, and award winners and honorees.
First recipient of Clinical Congress Travel Award for Student Members reflects on his experience
The experiences of the inaugural Medical Student Clinical Congress Travel Award recipient are summarized.
The 2020 Medicare physician fee schedule: An overview of provisions that will affect surgical practices
This article reviews provisions in the 2020 Medicare physician fee schedule final rule that are relevant to general surgery and its related specialties.
2020 CPT coding changes
Changes to Current Procedural Terminology codes and an overview of related reporting information are summarized.
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