Advocacy Articles
Updates about legislative and regulatory issues impacting the field of sleep medicine
Last week the National Institutes of Health announced the appointment of Alan E. Guttmacher, MD, as director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), effective Aug. 1, 2010.
Effective Jan. 1, 2011, a sleep clinic must have on file evidence that it is fully or provisionally accredited by either the American Academy of Sleep Medicine or the Joint Commission.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is extending the comment period for a proposed rule that would amend the regulations on potential conflicts of interest among agency-funded researchers.
On July 15 the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies approved $1 billion in added funds for the NIH in fiscal year 2011, which would raise the agency’s budget to more than $32 billion.
In response to the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) program, Medicare Durable Medical Equipment (DME) contractors CIGNA and NHIC have provided details on their prepayment review of claims for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Devices (E0601).
Donald Berwick, MD, was sworn in last week as CMS administrator. Dr. Berwick, who served as president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and as a Harvard University professor, is best known for helping hospitals use standardized procedures to improve quality.
The incentive plan was outlined in the 2009 federal economic stimulus package to spur adoption of health information technology to boost medical care effectiveness and efficiency.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has announced the renewal of a program supporting interdisciplinary graduate training and continuing education in the core occupational safety and health areas as well as other closely related occupational safety and health (OSH) fields.
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) - an agency of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - invites you to attend its 2010 National Conference on Health Statistics.
The National Institutes of Health’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR) has released “NIH Peer Review Revealed,” a 15-minute video that shows new applicants and others how NIH assesses more than 80,000 grant applications each year to help find those with the most merit.