By providing a specific list of procedures to question -- and to cut down -- the medical community hopes to push us in the right direction.

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In April a smattering of doctors' groups released a list of overused procedures.

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This past week, the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation along with nine professional physician groups released a list of 45 common tests and procedures that are performed too often.

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Finally, as with most in-house compliance rules, your firm will likely require you to submit an annual update addressing most of the punch-list items in its written supervisory procedures and employee manuals.

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He ordered a set of changes in counterterrorism procedures, including how the watch list system operates, as well as new efforts to develop more sophisticated explosives detection technology for airport screening checkpoints.

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Roughly a quarter of the 785 procedures that Medicaid could theoretically cover have been struck off the list.

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In the case of kidney procedures, it is estimated that half of those over 60 years of age on the transplant waiting list will die while awaiting a transplant.

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