 President Obama submits Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal to Congress
President Obama submitted his Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal to Congress this week. Of particular concern to ASA is the President's continued support for the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) and the lack of any proposed resolution to the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR).
New rural health legislation in House includes pass-through provision
A recently introduced bill by Representatives Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Mike Thompson (D-CA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 3589, The Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act, contains, among other items, a rural pass-through provision. ASA to Congressional negotiators: now is the time to repeal SGR and IPAB
ASA weighed in with congressional negotiators on H.R. 3630, the Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011, to re-affirm the specialty's strong support for a full SGR repeal, replacement of SGR with a new formula that takes into account anesthesiology's unique 33 percent problem and tying these efforts to a repeal of IPAB. Submission site open for medically challenging cases at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2012
Don't miss the opportunity to submit challenging cases that you have managed in your hospital or practice. All learning tracks will be represented, so there is a case for every medical specialty. Website tip: patient education videos available from ASA
The next time you are looking for a visual way to help your patients understand the anesthesia experience, consider sharing with them one of ASA's latest collection of patient education videos. Videos are available on several anesthesia topics both general and specific. Please feel free to link to the videos or ASA's consumer website, lifelinetomodernmedicine.com.
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Available in an easy to download format, the detailed outlines from the highly regarded Refresher Course Lectures presented at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2011 are perfect for doing research, teaching or brushing up on your skills in anesthesiology. Order yours today. Sharpen your skills with ASA's on-demand webinars
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From analgesic opium to opioid anesthetics
Just 171 years ago this month, in February of 1841, the pharmacist who isolated morphine from opium, Friedrich Sertürner, drew his last breath. Thereafter, instead of opium distributed in wildly variable strengths by plasters or powders, patients could receive its active principle in measured doses. In modern times potent synthetic opiates are valuable weapons in the anesthesiologist's armamentarium. - George S. Bause, M.D., M.P.H., Honorary Curator, Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology. (Image courtesy of the Anesthesiology 2012 Calendar; copyright © the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc.) 
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