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Last week, the House and Senate passed alternative bills that would reauthorize and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program \(SCHIP\), which is set to expire September 30.
On July 16, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released the outpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule for calendar year 2008.
On July 12, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) issued the proposed fiscal year 2008 physician fee schedule rule, which contained proposed changes to the physician self-referral, or ")Stark,") rule. In general, the proposed changes narrow the existing exceptions or address…
The Hospital Quality Alliance \(HQA\) has adopted, on a preliminary basis, 10 performance measures of hospital outpatient quality.
In the May 11 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) finalized changes to its direct graduate medical education \(DGME\) and indirect medical education \(IME\) payment policies related to the time residents spend in non-hospital settings, such as physician…
Kirschner Presentation: Corporate Campaigns - Five Questions Every Hospital Leader Should Ask to Prepare For and Manage a Corporate Campaign
Corporate Campaigns: Five Questions Every Hospital Leader Should Ask to Prepare For and Manage a Corporate Campaign - Hospital leaders in today's health care environment need to assess early the likelihood and vulnerability of the hospital to a corporate campaign carried out by a labor union.…
The Employee Free Choice Act \(S. 1041/ H.R. 800\) the ")card check") bill - failed in the Senate today. During a procedural vote to determine whether the bill itself would be brought up for consideration, supporters failed to attract the necessary 60 ")yeas,") instead garnering only 51.