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Endocrine Insider - April 1, 2010

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Health Reform Affects Patient Care and Research; Society Webinar to Provide Details
After almost a year of debate, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (HR 3590) on March 23, 2010. Although a package of changes passed by both the House and Senate and signed by the President...

 
Physicians Face Pay Cut; CMS to Delay Processing Claims
Originally scheduled to go into effect on January 1, the impending 21.2 percent reduction in Medicare physician reimbursement Medicare has been averted until now through multiple short-term legislative fixes...

 
Society Supports NIH Revision of hESC Definition
On February 23, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking public comment on a revision to the definition of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) in the “National Institutes of Health Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research” (Guidelines)...

 
Policy Limits Tests Used to Qualify Medicare Patients for Insulin Pumps
A new policy implemented by the four durable medical equipment (DME) Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) restricts the acceptable means by which to identify beta-cell autoantibodies to qualify Medicare patients...

 
Society Announces Inaugural Winner of Vigersky Travel Award
The Endocrine Society is proud to announce the inaugural recipient of the Harold Vigersky Practicing Physician Travel Award. The winner, Michael K. Laidlaw, MD, is an endocrinologist practicing in Rocklin, California...