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Healthcare Reform's Long and Winding Road: Neurosurgeons Provide Direction
The future path of healthcare reform remains uncertain. So far, it's been a long and winding road, and the Washington Committee -- representing the AANS and CNS -- have been along for the ride to navigate every twist, turn, speed bump, and detour. Here's a look back at many of the significant healthcare events and efforts over the last 12 months.
AANS Overall CME Program Survey
On behalf of H. Hunt Batjer, MD, FACS, chair, AANS Maintenance of Certification/CME Committee, we ask that you take a moment to click on the link below and complete a brief, eight question survey regarding the AANS continuing medical education program.
The survey process is a key component in providing cutting-edge programming to meet the needs of all neurosurgeons and allied health professionals.
This survey will close on February 15, 2010. Thank you in advance for your time.
To access the survey, please click on the link below:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RT7D5SG
Alliance Members Sign Letter of Opposition on Establishment of Independent Payment Advisory Board
Members of the Alliance of Specialty Medicine, including the AANS and CNS, have joined dozens of other organizations concerned about Medicare beneficiaries in opposition to the establishment of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) included in the Senate-passed health reform bill (H.R. 3590). Read the letter. Read the news release.
NEW ONLINE CME COURSE! Anterior Cervical Diskectomy and Fusion (ACDF): Current Grafting Options
Led by Neill M. Wright, MD. Associate Professor, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Spine surgery has made tremendous technological advances in the past few decades. But what are the benefits of these technological advances to the patient? This online activity will review these advances in the form of osteobiologics used for cervical treatment. Click here to view this course and other online educational opportunities.
Nation's Neurosurgeons Launch Ad Campaign Opposing Senate Health Reform Bill
The AANS and CNS have joined thousands of other physicians from 14 medical specialty organizations to deliver an urgent message to the public and to Congress: we need reform, but this isn’t the right reform; urge your Senator to vote "NO" on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590). For more information and to view the ads, with the strong message, "Physicians Agree: Senate Health Care Bill is Bad Medicine for Patients," visit www.PhysiciansUnitedForPatients.org. Click here to see and hear the campaign ads.
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