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Affordable Care Act
Health Care Regulations After the Election — Implementation at Light…
Sometime tonight or early tommorow, the 2012 Presidential election will be decided, and according to a recent article from…
Affordable Care Act: Medical Device Tax a Problem for Innovation
One of the most controversial provisions from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a provision that will impose…
CMS Medicare Prescription Plans Remain Constant – The Donut Hole is Filled
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that the average basic premiums for Medicare…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Senate Special Committee on Aging…
The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging held a roundtable discussion entitled, “Let the Sunshine in: Implementing the Physician…
CMS Begins Penalizing Hospitals for Readmissions
Section 3025 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) added section 1886(q) to the Social Security Act establishing the Hospital…
Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (IPRCC) Inaugural Meeting
The interagency pain research coordinating committee (IPRCC) recently held its inaugural meeting at the National Institutes of…
Affordable Care Act Supreme Court Count Down – Regardless of the Outcome…
By noon eastern this Thursday, June 28th, the Supreme Court of the United States will decide the constitutionality of the Patient…
FDA Draft Guidance on BioSimilars – Key Responses
Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued three draft guidance documents on biosimilar product development…
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Medi-Medi Fraud Detection Program Falls…
The Medicare-Medicaid Data Match program (Medi-Medi program) enables program safeguard contractors (PSC) and participating State…
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid: Proposed Rules for Hospital Inpatient…
In late April 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a rule (1313 pages!) that would enhance the…