• 1 POLITICS & POLICY: Senate Rural Health Plan Goes Back To The Barn

• 2 REIMBURSEMENT: Rural Reforms Snard in Medicare Reform Tangle

• 3 Providers Still Working on SGR Fix

• 4 Appeals: Avoid Appeals Doldrums With Documentation

• 5 RVUS: CMS Slashes More Than a Dozen Codes

• 6 COMPLIANCE PERSPECTIVES: Docs' Coding Savvu Can Boost Reimbursement, Enhance Compliance

• 7 Understand Modifiers for Non-Covered Services

• 8 COVERAGE: National Coverage Policies Should Rule, Report Says

• 9 LOCAL COVERAGE POLICIES: CIGNA Policies Limit Sinus Endoscopy

• 10 REIMBURSEMENT: When You Take Extra Time, Make It Count

• 11 ABNs: Game of Musical Diagnoses Leaves Patient Without Chair

• 12 LUNG-VOLUME REDUCTION: Study Suggests Who Gains From Disputed Surgery

• 13 MEDICARE REFORM: AWP Cuts, Redistribution Not Dead Yet

• 14 MEDICARE REFORM: Grassley Provisions Unpopular With Many

• 15 PHYSICIAN NOTES: Carriers Tout Safeguard Hauls

• 16 CHART: Prolonged Services