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AHA meets with HHS: Standardizing Patient Assessment Instruments Across Settings
On April 12, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released its proposed rule for the fiscal year \(FY\) 2007 hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\). CMS proposes some of the most significant changes to the system since its implementation in 1983.
In October, the Food and Drug Administration \(FDA\) opened an investigation into human tissue recovered by Biomedical Tissue Services, Ltd. \(BTS\) of Ft. Lee, NJ. The tissue was acquired from donors who may or may not have met FDA donor eligibility requirements, and may or may not have been…