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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State urges patients to seek 2nd opinions, alleging imaging facility posed ‘serious risk to human health’

Officials issued an emergency order halting mammography at Hoffman MRI, but the practice allegedly continued imaging dozens of patients.

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Medicare improves racial healthcare inequities

Medicare is associated with reductions in racial and ethnic disparities in insurance coverage, access to care and self-reported health across the U.S., according to a new study published in JAMA.

 

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American College of Radiology leads push to extend Medicare pay protections through 2023

A temporary 3.75% pay increase, enacted to soften the blow of budget neutrality requirements, is set to expire on Jan. 1. 

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Healthcare system still suing patients after being sold

A healthcare system in Tennessee is still suing patients for uncollected debt even after it’s been sold and some of its facilities were repurposed by the buyer. 

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Bills in both chambers of Congress would protect payment for mammography screenings before age 50

Millions of women stand to lose breast cancer screening benefits if lawmakers fail to extend the moratorium on honoring controversial USPSTF recommendations. 

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Lawmakers urge CMS to reexamine long-delayed imaging Appropriate Use Criteria program

The quality initiative has been pushed back several times, and some are concerned that it's no longer relevant and duplicates other efforts. 

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Physicians want Congress to calm ‘deepening alarm’ over 2022 Medicare practice pay cuts

Providers potentially face a 9.75% reimbursement reduction unless lawmakers intervene, advocates wrote in a recent letter to House and Senate leaders. 

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Bipartisan bill would bolster Medicare patients’ access to diagnostic imaging agents

Federal payment rules prevent certain providers from affording such radiopharmaceuticals, leaving many without access to cutting-edge diagnostics, lawmakers said.