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The American Academy of Family Physicians AAFP sent the Senate Finance Committee a statement in response to the committee's options paper to reform the health care delivery system (subscribers can read our coverage here). You can download the AAFP's statement by clicking here, but here are two highlights:

The White House is moving forward with HHS appointments by naming Dr. Thomas Frieden, the current New York City Health Department commissioner, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We're still waiting for a CMS administrator to be named.

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Here is the latest H1N1 influenza virus (aka swine flu) breakdown from the CDC. Subscribers can read our coverage, which includes Medicare billing advice, here and here.

Medicare won't cover computed tomography (CT) colonography screenings for colorectal cancer, CMS stated in a decision memo on May 12.

If you transmit a prescription electronically using a qualified e-prescribing system and the pharmacy converts it into a fax, will the transmission still count favorably toward earning a bonus payment? CMS says, yes.

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