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