The 2010 Physician Fee Schedule, the Final Rule webinar will be Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009, at 12 p.m. CST. Bruce Blehart, JD, AASM Senior Health Policy Analyst, will answer the following questions:

• UCR to RBRVS: What does this mean?
• What is the process for the annual fee schedule changes?
• What are the changes ahead for sleep medicine in 2010?

Registration for the webinar includes access to the live session and an archived CD-ROM copy of the presentation. On the AASM Web site you can get more details about the 2010 Physician Fee Schedule, the Final Rule webinar and register online.

The 452-page final rule was published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the Federal Register Nov. 25, 2009. The document is available for download as a large 32MB PDF file on the U.S. Government Printing Office Web site.