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Amerinet, a leading healthcare group purchasing organization, announced the winners of its second annual Amerinet Healthcare Achievement Awards, which honor Amerinet members that excel in reducing healthcare costs and improving healthcare quality, according to an Amerinet news release.

Here are the top five payors by CMS region and volume for anesthesiology, according to GENASCIS's "Did You Know" benchmarking data. Note: Anesthesiology data not available for all CMS regions. Data may not be available for all states.

Establishing FMV for call coverage compensation is becoming increasingly difficult as arrangements are evolving and survey data is unreliable. The following will discuss recent trends in paying for call coverage, market statistics and the valuation considerations surrounding certain payment structures.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has rejected a computer-assisted anesthesia system that uses propofol manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, after an advisory panel recommended its approval last May, according to an Associated Press report in the San Francisco Chronicle.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has informed Medicare contractors that the interest rate for Medicare over- and underpayments has dropped to 10.875 percent, effective April 23, 2010, according to CMS Transmittal 166.

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