This Week: House committee advances physician payment reform...Finance Committee continues to explore health information technology...Orphan drug 340B rule finalized
1. Congress
House of Representatives
- Energy and Commerce Advances Medicare Physician Payment Reforms
- Bipartisan Letter Asks CMS to Modify Stroke Quality Measures
- Upcoming Ways and Means Hearing on ACA Implementation
Senate
- Finance Committee Hearing on Health Information Technology
- Upcoming Budget Committee Hearing on Health Care Costs
2. Administration
Health and Human Services (HHS)
3. State Activities
4. Regulations Open for Comment
- Proposed Rule, Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS)
- IRS Proposed Rule For Tax Credits Issued on Exchanges
- CMS Proposed Dialysis Payment Rule
- Proposed Rule on Home Health Payments
- Final CMS Rule on Improving Coordination Between Long-Term Care Hospitals and Hospices
- Proposed Rule to Clarify Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program
- Tanning Bed Warning Label Proposal
5. Reports
General Accountability Office (GAO)
Department of Health and Human Services -- Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG)
- OIG Concerned About GPO Stocks-for-Contracts Plan
- Senior Medicare Patrol Increases Medicare and Medicaid Recoveries
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