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		<title>National STD Awareness Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To the Georgia Section of the  American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Recently, Ralph Hale MD, the  executive vice president of the American College of Obstetricians and  Gynecologists sent out a report regarding National STD Awareness Month.  Throughout April, MTV and the Kaiser Foundation, working with the CDC  and other supporting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://georgiaobgyn.org/blog/?p=20</link>
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		<title>Tort Reform Cap Overturned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, March 22, by a vote 7 to 0 the Georgia  Supreme Court overturned the caps on emotional, non-economic pain and suffering passed  in the 2005 Tort Reform Legislation.  The cap was the center piece of the  reform legislation passed in 2005.
The 2005 legislation never capped economic  damages such as medical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://georgiaobgyn.org/blog/?p=18</link>
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		<title>2% Medicaid Fee Cut Budgeted for Physicians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The newest proposed state budget includes a  1.98% Medicaid fee cut for physicians and a 1.6% bed tax for  hospitals.   The budget is currently under discussion by both the House and Senate. 
Budget changes and budget votes will probably occur in March and April.  One suggestion many health care providers have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://georgiaobgyn.org/blog/?p=12</link>
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		<title>Blue Cross Blue Shield To Resume Payment for Pap Smears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the end 2009 Blue Cross Blue Shield began denying payment for many cytopathology/pap smear codes due to implementation of a claims edit system aimed at detecting claims bundling, duplicate billing and other problems.  Cytopathology/pap smear codes (88141-88155, 88164-88167, and 88174-88175) were denied when submitted with Evaluation and Management Services.  Many OBGyn practices in Georgia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://georgiaobgyn.org/blog/?p=10</link>
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		<title>Welcome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Georgia OB/GYN Society Blog.
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		<link>http://georgiaobgyn.org/blog/?p=5</link>
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