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CMS RELEASES PROPOSED RULES FOR CY 2010 OPPS/ASC AND PHYSICIAN FEE SCHEDULE
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel \(D-NY\), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman \(D-CA\) and Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller \(D-CA\) today released their draft health care reform legislation.
The AHA today submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) on its hospital inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010. Our 32-page letter details the AHA's views on numerous provisions in the rule, particularly our concerns with…
President Obama on Saturday during his weekly address to the nation announced he will seek nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars in additional cuts from Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals to help finance health care reform.
In fulfillment of the hospital field's May 11 commitment to the Obama Administration to develop concrete ideas to reduce the rate of growth in health care spending, the AHA and five other national health care organizations today submitted a letter outling cost containment actions to the White House…
Health organizations meet with President Obama regarding health reform.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) late Friday issued its hospital inpatient and long-term care prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.
The 2010 budget outline released by the White House today includes several measures affecting hospitals.
The tentative agreement on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act \(H.R. 1\), which could go to both chambers for a vote tomorrow, provides an estimated 89 billion. Actual language is being written, but, based on information provided to us, the following provisions appear to be included
As we reported last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) on February 6 announced that two companies that unsuccessfully bid to become Medicare recovery audit contractors \(RACs\) had withdrawn their bid protests, allowing the Medicare RAC program to proceed.