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ASA to CMS: Don't Gamble with Medicare Patients' Lives on Anesthesia Safety

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Summary

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to preserve Medicare's longstanding physician supervision standard for anesthesia care, warning that weakening or eliminating the standard would remove an important Medicare patient-safety safeguard.

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