The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2011 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule is now on display at the Office of the Federal Register’s Public Inspection Desk.
The bill designates the first week of September as "Drowsy Driving Prevention Week." During the week, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and the Department of Transportation are encouraged to educate the law enforcement community and the public about the relationship between fatigue and performance.
On June 28, Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle signed Senate Bill 2600 (SB 2600) into law. The bill establishes licensure for respiratory therapists.
As a benefit of membership, AASM individual and center members have the opportunity to order any of the AASM’s patient education brochures with their contact information printed professionally on the back of each brochure.
The July 1 issue of SLEEP is available online, and AASM members have access to the full text of each article when you log in.
The APSS Program Committee is requesting recommendations from AASM and Sleep Research Society (SRS) members for keynote speakers and invited lecturers.
At the new SLEEP 2010 Online Poster Viewing Site, you can view and discuss more than 265 posters that were presented in June at SLEEP 2010.
Understand how physicians who are identified by the Medicare program as non-participating may still provide care for Medicare beneficiaries and receive payment by the program.
President Obama signed into law the “Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010.”
The Virtual Reality Technologies for Research and Education in Obesity and Diabetes workshop, which has potentially far-reaching application to sleep disorders and behavioral sleep medicine, will be held July 15-16, 2010, in Bethesda, Md.