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Are you submitting your 2016 physician quality reporting system (PQRS) data via electronic health record (EHR)? If so, you got a dose of good news -- CMS extended the deadline for EHR-based reporters until March 31.

In the regulatory update in our March 13 issue of Part B News, Ann Marie Edwards, CEO of Alliance Cancer Specialists PC in Philadelphia, talks about the hardship the Obamacare “grace period” puts on her practice and how she hopes the Republican repeal-and-replace bill, the American Health Care Act, will solve it. To follow are some of her further thoughts on that bill.

Following a narrow committe vote March 2 to advance her nomination, Seema Verma stands poised to take control of CMS in the coming days. Which begs the question: Is Indiana the future of Medicaid?
Scam artists are trying a new way to get people to hand over their personal information including bank account numbers: They're posing as officials of the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG).
Be on the lookout, fraudsters: The federal governent is bearing down hard on misappropriated Medicare funds. A new report shows that the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC), combining efforts of HHS and the Department of Justice (DOJ), returned $1.7 billion to the Medicare Trust Fund in 2016.

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