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Swine flu preparations may take on fever pitch

by: SCOTT KRAFT Sep 10, 2009

Swine flu preparations continue as fall approaches.

Senate Finance Committee calls for 0.5% bump in 2010

by: CHARLES FIEGL Sep 8, 2009

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and his "Gang of Six" senators propose to replace the 21.5% cut to Medicare payments in 2010 with positive 0.5% update, according to an outline of the longawaited Senate Finance Committee health reform bill.

Medical offices and clinics pandemic influenza checklist

by: CHARLES FIEGL Sep 4, 2009

Here is the correct link to the flu pandemic checklist mentioned in the Sept. 7 edition of Part B News. I had checked the link before it was published in the newsletter yesterday, but now it's broken.

73 new RAC targets proposed

by: CHARLES FIEGL Sep 1, 2009

Expect the list of Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) targets to grow throughout the rest of the year. That's the message I received while covering the Practicing Physicians Advisory Council (PPAC) quarterly meeting on Monday.

CERT program expanded to target inpatient services

by: Grant Huang Aug 31, 2009

You may never have gotten a records request from CMS for its Comprehensive Error Rate Test (CERT) report, but you probably will in the future. CERT's back and the program's scope has been expanded. I spoke to a CMS official who assured me that the skipped mid-year report didn't mean that CERT was "on hold." The program "has never been on hold," she said.

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