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Physician Payment Fix in S-CHIP Nixed, Appropriations Bills in Trouble
Earlier this summer, both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate passed legislation reauthorizing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP). Also contained in the House-passed version of the legislation was a provision that would have increased physician payments in 2008 and 2009 by 0.5 percent and ultimately changed the way that Medicare physician payments are calculated....
| Congress Mandates Expansion of Clinical Trials Registry
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate both passed the FDA Amendments Act of 2007 (H.R. 3580), which contains language expanding requirements for reporting clinical trials and their results in clinical trials registry databases....
| CSR Reports Ongoing Changes to Peer Review
In the latest issue of peer review notes, the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) describes some of the recent and ongoing changes that have resulted from critical examination of the peer-review process for grant applications. Some changes include the abolition of application deadlines for chartered reviewers, full implementation of shorter review cycles for new-investigator R01 submissions, and pilot projects for shorter R01 applications....
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