The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced significant updates with regards to its value-based care programs. Of these programs, MACRA, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, represents a highly innovative legislative measure to encourage quality care…
Month: April 2018
Labor Epidural and Maternal Temperature
Despite earlier controversies, it is now more widely accepted that epidural labor analgesia has a causal association with maternal hyperthermia and maternal fever. However, the issue is complex given the wide range of etiologies of maternal fever, and the criticisms…