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  1. ANATOMY OF AN AUDIT hub.am/HT9R4b
  2. Anatomy Of An Audit hub.am/I7XQ5o
  3. Via @nprnews: Emergency Room Doctors Say Health Law Will Make ER Crowding Worse | n.pr/kKotR5
  4. Don't forget CDC report from May 2010. Visits by uninsured no more likely to be nonurgent than private insured pts. http://1.usa.gov/ddWBcR
  5. ED visits increase at 2x the rate of US population. Less than 8% are non-emerg. So no surprise at overcrowding says ACEP healthleadersmedia.com/content/LED-26…
  6. Community Health Systems receives subpoena re: ED physician relationships. Could be about unnecessary admissions. modernhealthcare.com/article/201104…?trk
  7. California budget: Hospitals are wary of California budget plan to shift emergency funds - latimes.. http://lat.ms/f2v0sY
  8. Emergency Care Funding To Be Eliminated! Act now and make a difference! http://tinyurl.com/4p2wqc7
  9. WE WON!! We sued AZ Atty General's office to reverse their Medicaid complaint against ED group for upcoding. OIG dropped the case entirely.
  10. At ACEP Reimbursement and Coding conference in Las Vegas. Lots of gloom and doom about the future but prepared ED groups can still prosper.
  11. Medicare Policy Changes For 2011 - http://eepurl.com/cE5ok
  12. President's 2012 budget has $62 bil. in Medicare cuts that would be used to delay physician pay cuts for 2 more years. http://bit.ly/hIlObO
  13. Dr. Andrea Brault, EGO President, was quoted in TODAY's San Diego Union Tribune http://tinyurl.com/49gf2bf
  14. Is it time to quit the RUC? Other cognitive specialities think so. The RUC sold EM out on lac repair reductions this yr http://bit.ly/eQZVjw
  15. Radiologists worry that malp cases might require that they actually talk to patients, which is "fraught with danger". imagingbiz.com/articles/view/…
  16. We congratulate the members of Golden Heart Emergency Physicians on the successful conclusion to their payer dispute http://bit.ly/f90Aqo
  17. Read Dr. Brault's Letter to the Editor, LA Times, about cutting preventable admissions. ERs need more resources. http://bit.ly/fYZFDr
  18. CMS set Global Days to zero for simple lacs and cut Work RVUs by 40% as they think ED docs don't do lac repair followup. So, now they will!
  19. Watch out for errors on the CMS Physician Compare website. Warn your patients and administrators this data is wrong. http://bit.ly/hNUwCy
  20. Someone wants to buy your hospitalist practice! A feeding frenzy is breaking out among practice management companies http://tiny.cc/rrfy8