Bill expected to stabilize Medicare physician reimbursement, streamline pay-for-performance programs, simplify quality reporting process

Bill expected to stabilize Medicare physician reimbursement, streamline pay-for-performance programs, simplify quality reporting process
Outline of steps in the federal approval route, from idea phase to implementation
Instant messaging, texting, oral interpretation, other non-clinical tools have made referrals, surgery easier for deaf, hard of hearing otolaryngologists
Surgeons, oncologists at Triological Combined Sections Meeting discuss role of imaging, recurrence management, nonsurgical options for patients
Otolaryngologists at Triological Combined Sections Meeting recommend procedures, therapeutic approaches for accidental transection, cancer, large vagal paraganglioma
Otolaryngologists at Triological Combined Sections Meeting debate when it’s best to perform these procedures
Panelists at Triological Combined Sections Meeting explore ways genetics, molecular diagnostics can impact head and neck cancer therapy
Institute of Medicine recommends same level of financial support for 10 years; physicians concerned amount won’t sustain residency training
How reflective spatulas, speculums, autoscopes were developed to examine patients; the laryngoscope’s impact on anethesiology
Physicians at Triological Combined Sections Meeting discuss whether trend has advanced research in the field; caution that otolaryngology generalists still needed