The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has announced the renewal of a program supporting interdisciplinary graduate training and continuing education in the core occupational safety and health areas as well as other closely related occupational safety and health (OSH) fields.
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) - an agency of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - invites you to attend its 2010 National Conference on Health Statistics.
The National Institutes of Health’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR) has released “NIH Peer Review Revealed,” a 15-minute video that shows new applicants and others how NIH assesses more than 80,000 grant applications each year to help find those with the most merit.
In response to a legislative mandate to set durable medical equipment (DME) prices pursuant to a competitive bidding process, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released DME payment amounts for nine communities where the new price structure will go into effect Jan. 1, 2011.
For the July ISR Testing Program the AASM gratefully acknowledges Embla Systems for contributing software and the Sleep Medicine and Research Center of Chesterfield, Mo., and Dr. Michael Zachek for providing sleep records.
Beginning Sept. 1, 2010, applications will be accepted for a new program offering AASM Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Accreditation for non-Medicare providers.
Dr. Patrick J. Strollo Jr., the 2010-2011 President of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is an associate professor in the University of Pittsburgh’s Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched the official website for the Medicare & Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs
This week CMS reminded physicians that it is not too late to start participating in the 2010 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) and potentially qualify to receive incentive payments.
Earlier this week CMS announced that it is offering physicians and other practitioners, whose current participation status is non-participating, the opportunity to become participating (PAR). This opportunity is available through July 16, 2010.