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Endocrine Insider - July 28, 2010

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Subcommittees Provide NIH with FY 2011 Increase Equal to Biomedical Inflation
As Congress nears the August recess, the appropriations committees are pushing forward with the fiscal year (FY) 2011 appropriations process. The House of Representatives has passed 10 of the 12 FY 2011 appropriations bills through the subcommittee process...

 
72 Percent of Physicians Surveyed See Reduced Revenue Due to Elimination of Consultation Codes
In the 2010 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) eliminated Medicare billing for inpatient and outpatient/office consultation codes effective January 1, 2010...

 
Meaningful Use Final Rule Addresses Society’s Concerns
As reported in previous editions of Endocrine Insider, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) allocated approximately $19 billion for Medicare and Medicaid Health Information Technology (HIT)...

 
Society Participates in Visioning Process Instituted by Newly Appointed NICHD Director
On Thursday, July 22, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins announced the appointment of Alan E. Guttmacher, M.D., as director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)...