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Updates about legislative and regulatory issues impacting the field of sleep medicine
If legislation is not signed into law before the weekend, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will have no option but to instruct its contractors to begin processing Medicare claims for physician services provided in June at rates that reflect the 21-percent cut.
On Monday Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) filed a motion for cloture on the extenders bill, which would reverse the 21-percent Medicare physician payment cut that took effect for services provided on and after June 1.
The NASA Human Research Program requests comments on its public goals including several items of potential interest to sleep and circadian researchers such as behavioral health and performance, workload measures, and neurocognitive performance.
There has been a steady level of sleep-related clinical research funded by the National Institutes of Health.
The National Institutes of Health, through its National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR), is in the early phases of revising the National Sleep Disorders Research Plan that was last published in 2003.
The Office of Public Health and Science is soliciting public comment on the HHS Interagency Workgroup on Multiple Chronic Conditions draft ‘‘HHS Strategic Framework on Multiple Chronic Conditions.’’
In May the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it is updating its criteria related to the timely filing limits for submitting claims for Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) reimbursement.
The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it is further delaying enforcement of the “Red Flags” Rule through December 31, 2010, while Congress considers legislation that would affect the scope of covered entities.
The provisions in the revised extenders package (H.R. 4213) include a 2.2-percent Medicare physician payment update for the remainder of 2010, a one-percent update for 2011, and a return to the current sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula in 2012.
As Congress works to avert the negative update to the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) that is scheduled to take effect June 1, 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has instructed its contractors to hold claims containing services paid under the MPFS (including anesthesia services) for the first 10 business days of June.