Policy & Regulations

This channel includes news coverage of healthcare policy and regulations set by Congress, the states, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and medical associations and societies. 

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How would the proposed 2023 MPFS impact your cardiology practice? Use this free tool to find out

The American College of Cardiology has developed a helpful calculator that allows cardiologists and practice managers to estimate just how much the proposed 2023 MPFS could impact their practice.

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Physician group asks for extension on surprise billing regulations

While MGMA recognized that the No Surprises Act “established critical patient protections against balance billing and created new cost transparency tools to help patients,” the association argued the new requirements for 2022 also carried “ significant additional administrative burdens for group practices.”

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Only 16% of hospitals complying with price transparency rules

Few hospitals are actually complying with price transparency rules nearly two years after they were implemented.

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Following inspection failures, 2 mammography centers have 2 different outcomes

The FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has updated the status of two previously disaccredited mammography operations, rehabilitating the reputation of one while showing the other in limbo.

What works—and what doesn’t—for chipping away at CT overutilization in the ED

The presence of any or all of four factors can help ensure appropriate CT utilization in emergency settings: established diagnostic pathways, alternative test availability, involvement of specialists and feedback from referrers.

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Doc indicted over radiology kickback scheme

Payam Toobian, MD, is alleged to have paid kickbacks in the form of gift cards, checks and cash to physicians in exchange for referrals to his Queens imaging center—Empire Imaging—from January 2006 to August 2017.

Should patients—or any of 6 other stakeholder groups—get paid for AI in healthcare?

The commoditization of health data raises questions about who is owed what, and in what proportion, when artificial intelligence renders the data clinically useful and thereby financially profitable.

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of monkeypox virus (orange) on the surface of infected VERO E6 cells (green). Credit: NIAID

Monkeypox declared public health emergency

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra made the announcement Aug. 4 in recognition of the continued rapid transmission of monkeypox in the U.S. and globally.