Joseph Stapleton, MD, is an anesthesiologist, pain physician and a partner at East Portland Surgical Center in Happy Valley, OR.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released updated payment files for the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule as well as retroactive provisions for measures extended through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to CMS Transmittal 700.
Twenty-five surgical societies, representing more than 240,000 surgeons and anesthesiologists, sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, urging Congress to enact Medicare physician payment reform to stop scheduled payment cuts to physicians, according to a news release from the…