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Updates about legislative and regulatory issues impacting the field of sleep medicine
In response to a legislative mandate to set durable medical equipment (DME) prices pursuant to a competitive bidding process, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released DME payment amounts for nine communities where the new price structure will go into effect Jan. 1, 2011.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched the official website for the Medicare & Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs
This week CMS reminded physicians that it is not too late to start participating in the 2010 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) and potentially qualify to receive incentive payments.
Earlier this week CMS announced that it is offering physicians and other practitioners, whose current participation status is non-participating, the opportunity to become participating (PAR). This opportunity is available through July 16, 2010.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2011 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule is now on display at the Office of the Federal Register’s Public Inspection Desk.
The bill designates the first week of September as "Drowsy Driving Prevention Week." During the week, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and the Department of Transportation are encouraged to educate the law enforcement community and the public about the relationship between fatigue and performance.
On June 28, Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle signed Senate Bill 2600 (SB 2600) into law. The bill establishes licensure for respiratory therapists.
Understand how physicians who are identified by the Medicare program as non-participating may still provide care for Medicare beneficiaries and receive payment by the program.
President Obama signed into law the “Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010.”
The Virtual Reality Technologies for Research and Education in Obesity and Diabetes workshop, which has potentially far-reaching application to sleep disorders and behavioral sleep medicine, will be held July 15-16, 2010, in Bethesda, Md.