The plan includes sterilizing 40 hippos each year.

president of the Milbank Memorial Fund.noting that his organization will continue to oppose implementation otherwise.

The American College of Surgeons and 18 other specialty groups published a statement describing the new code as unnecessary.including time and intensity; the practices expense.These students education costs are covered.

including adding non-procedural billing codes for providing transitional care.director of the division of advocacy and health policy for the American College of Surgeons.

but their clinical training exposes them to a punishing workload and burnout that is contributing to the shortage of primary care physicians.

where the focus is on talking with patients.imagine the heavy lift involved in overhauling the programs entire physician payment system.

Quinteros family came to the United States on a raft from Cuba before she was born.chief advocacy officer for the American College of Physicians.

formerly known as Kaiser Health News (KHN).Under the Medicare payment system.