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  OIG Releases Compendium of its Own Unimplemented Recommendations . . .
Mar 11, 2010
  President Announces Greater Use of Payment Recapture Audits to Address Fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, Other Programs . . .
Mar 10, 2010
  MedPAC Releases Transcript of Last Week's Meeting . . .
Mar 7, 2010
  OIG Posts Criminal and Civil Enforcement Report for February . . .
Mar 6, 2010
  CMS Posts Agenda for March 8 Session of Practicing Physicians Advisory Council . . .
Mar 5, 2010
  House Judiciary Subcommittee Posts Statements from Hearing on Criminal Actions Against Medicare, Medicaid Fraud . . .
Mar 5, 2010
  House Appropropriations Labor-HHS Subcommittee Posts Statements from Hearing on Health Care Fraud and Abuse . . .
Mar 5, 2010
  Baucus Jobs Bill Substitute Contains Doc Pay Fix, Other Health Provisions . . .
Mar 2, 2010
  MedPAC Submits March Report to Congress . . .
Mar 1, 2010
  House Approps Subommittee on Labor-HHS Sets Hearing on Health Care Fraud and Abuse . . .
Feb 26, 2010
  CMS Educational Document Provides Qs and As on Reporting Physician Consultation Servivces . . .
Feb 25, 2010
  Study Finds Market Power of California Hospitals and Physicians Helping Drive Insurance Premium Increases . . .
Feb 25, 2010
  AAMC Report -- "From Recovery to Discovery" -- Finds ARRA Powering Scientific Advances and Economic Growth . . .
Feb 22, 2010
  OIG, Finding That RACs Made 2 Fraud Referrals in 2005 - 2008 Period, Recommends Training Them . . .
Feb 19, 2010
  Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds Global Payment May be Making Comeback as Many of Capitation's Past Kinks Now Worked Out . . .
Feb 18, 2010
  CMS Posts Final FY 2010 Technical Documents on Use of Electronic Health Records to Report PQRI Data . . .
Feb 17, 2010
  AHA Analysis Looks at Clinical Integration Among Hospitals and Physicians, Calls it Key to True Reform . . .
Feb 17, 2010
  In Annual Report on State of Nation's Health Care, American College of Physicians Sees Dire Future Without Reform . . .
Feb 17, 2010
  National Health Policy Forum Releases Background Paper on Physician Education . . .
Feb 17, 2010
  17 Senators Write Sebelius to Say that "Meaningful Use" Rule Contravenes Congressional Intent on Hospital-Based Professionals . . .
Feb 16, 2010
  Medical Group Management Association Releases Research That Highlights Challenges in Reporting PQRI Data . . .
Feb 16, 2010
  Private Insurers -- Revised Radiology and Cardiology Credentialing Guidelines (Subscription Content) . . .
Feb 16, 2010
  Majority Leader Strips Some Health Provisions from Senate Jobs Bill . . .
Feb 12, 2010
  Study Finds That When Physicians are Excluded from a PPO, Patients Don't Follow . . .
Feb 11, 2010
  Contradicting Conventional Wisdom, Study Finds Reduced Medicare Fees for Physicians Associated with Lower, Not Higher, Volume of Procedures . . .
Feb 11, 2010
 
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