Medicare Physician Payments Slashed by 15.4 Percent in Proposed 2009 Fee Schedule In its annual letter to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) revealed that it anticipates physician reimbursement for Medicare services in 2009 to be approximately 15.4 percent less than the current rates.
HHMI Announces Competition for Early Career Scientist Program The competitive Early Career Scientist Program targets researchers who hold early faculty positions at one of more than 200 eligible institutions, who have led research laboratories for two to six years, and who demonstrate “potential for significant research productivity and originality...