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AAMC Reporter: August 2008
In the News
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CMS Releases Preventable Conditions Rules
On July 31, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that as of Oct. 1 it will not pay for treatments connected with three kinds of conditions or complications that it considers preventable in a hospital setting.
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Medical Fundraisers Pound the Pavement
As government funding grows more unstable and health- and construction-related costs rise ever higher, using private fundraising sources may be more important than ever to academic medicine's bottom line.
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Viewpoint
"Changing Numbers, or Changing Roles?"
By Adalsteinn D. Brown, D.Phil., and Joshua D. Tepper, M.D., C.C.F.P., M.P.H., Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
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The Print Issue
- Healthy Hospitals: Medical Centers Balance Patient Interests, Balance Sheet
- GME Innovations: A Conscious Focus
- Musical Composers' Medical Problems Uncovered
- Research InRoads
- In Brief
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