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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?
The deadline for Medicare providers to make their last attestation for meaningful use before the program goes away has been moved back from Feb. 28 to March 13 at 11:59 pm Pacific time, or 3:00 am March 14 Eastern time.
The Senate Finance Committee will hold a vote Jan. 31 to decide whether Rep. Tom Price, R.-Ga., will have a chance to oversee the multibillion-dollar budget of the Department of Health and Human Services.

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