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Midwest Connect
August 2011
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Fall Meeting Registration is Open! | |
In these ever-changing times in health care, can you afford to miss any information? Your Midwest AAOE Eduction Committee has put together a great program for the Fall 2011 Meeting. The meeting details are below and we have set up online registration for this year's event. If you click on the link below you will also be able to download the preliminary agenda and housing instructions.
The meeting is taking place:
October 14-15, 2011
Doubletree by Hilton Kansas City
Overland Park, KS
The hotel is ready to accept your room reservations. The room rate is $79 and reservations can be made by calling the Doubletree directly at 913-451-6100. Please mention you are participating in the Midwest AAOE meeting to receive the group rate.
Online registration is now available. Register Today!
We sincerely hope to see many of you there.
Trish, Stephanie, and Jim
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CBO Projects Large Deficit Reductions, but Assumes SGR-based Medicare Cuts | |
A report released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that cumulative federal deficits will reach $3.5 trillion between 2012 and 2021 - a reduction from $6.9 trillion deficit that CBO projected earlier this year. However, the CBO projections include Medicare pay cuts of approximately 30 percent currently mandated under the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula and scheduled to take effect January 1, 2012. The agency explains that, should Congress vote to extend a group of policies - including certain tax rates and current Medicare pay rates - annual deficits from 2012 through 2021 would average 4.3 percent of GDP, compared with 1.8 percent in the CBO's baseline projections, and reult in cumulative deficits of nearly $8.5 trillion.
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Battle over Integrated Physical Therapy Services Rages on in California | |
CMA Alert reports that the Physical Therapy (PT) Board of California has agreed to delay the conclusion of its investigations into what the board calls "illegal employment" arrangements between physical therapists and other healthcare providers. The board had previoiusly permitted the offering of physical thearpy services by medical, podiatric, and chiropractic corporations. However, in a decision last year the board declared that beginning Nov. 3, 2010, it would enforce a Legislative Counsel opinion, arguing that physical therapists cannot be employed by any professional corporation, except those owned by physical therapists or naturopaths. The California Medical Association states that it is working through various channels to prevent the PT board from completing its disciplinary actions.
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