Chris Link, MD., The American Thinker: Anesthesiologists bill for most surgical cases with a combination of base units depending on the particular surgery (e.g. cardiac bypass has a higher base value than a hernia repair), plus one time unit for every 15 minutes. The average anesthesiologist bills 10,198 units in a year. Medicare pays, on average, $20.925 per unit. Now $213,393 a year sounds like a pretty decent living for

Chris Link, MD., The American Thinker: Anesthesiologists bill for most surgical cases with a combination of base units depending on the particular surgery (e.g. cardiac bypass has a higher base value than a hernia repair), plus one time unit for every 15 minutes. The average anesthesiologist bills 10,198 units in a year. Medicare pays, on average, $20.925 per unit. Now $213,393 a year sounds like a pretty decent living for

…just who will oversee the overseers? Still, TARP’s avowed purpose was to help healthy banks resume lending following the economic meltdown of 2008; it was never meant to become a congressional slush fund. Or was it? It’s time for Treasury to disclose all records about all contacts it has received from congressmen concerning the distribution of TARP funds. Anything less than full disclosure will fuel more public worries about possible

New letters surface from Salinger to a war buddy. Most interestingly, a confirmation that Salinger had a room full of unpublished manuscripts. Then there’s this, about the book that almost was. (h/t TSI)