Documents

August 2011

• IRS Guidance For Branded Drug Fee
• NIOSH Seeks Comment On Draft For Diacetyl And 2,3-pentanedione
• Stark/Grassley Respond To GAO Report On Nursing Homes
• GAO Report Shows Private Investor-Owned Nursing Homes Had More Total Deficiencies Than Other Facilities
• 11th Circuit Appeals Court Strikes Down Reform Law's Individual Mandate
• GAO: CMS Has Difficulty Measuring Resources Physicians Use To Treat Illness Episodes
• IRS Proposes Rule On Health Insurance Premium Tax Credits
• CMS Proposes Rule On Who May Enroll In Health Plans Through Health Insurance Exchanges
• CMS Proposes Rule On ACA's Medicaid And CHIP Eligibility, Enrollment; Proposes FMAP Rates
• New Heritage Foundation Report Finds Pitfalls With ACOs
• NIOSH Announces Advisory Board Meeting Aug. 23-25
• Reactions To 'Super Committee' Picks
• OMB Reviewing CMS List Of Regs Slated For Elimination
• Osteopathic Docs Ask For SGR To Be Super Committee Priority
• House Oversight Panel Continues To Seek Health Reform Waiver Documents
• CMS Announces New Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration
• Comments On The Medicare Data Sharing Rule
• CMS Unveils Fifth Year PGP Demo Results
• Primary Care Physicians Sue To Keep CMS From Relying On AMA's RUC, McDermott Drafts Bill
• Physicians Oppose FDA Advisory Panel Conflict Changes
• NIOSH Research On Safety For Ambulance Service Workers, EMS Responders
• CMS Issues Additional Guidance On Maintenance Of Effort Provisions In Health Reform
• CMS Announces New Quality Tools And Initiatives
• Doctors For America Urges Members To Lobby Over August Break
• Grassley Urges HHS Not To Weaken Health Research Transparency Rule