Society-Championed DXA Provision Passed in Health Reform The Senate passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (HR 3590) on December 24, 2009, and included as part of that legislation a two-year fix of the payment cuts to DXA services performed in physicians’ offices...
CMS Releases Information on EHR Incentive Payments The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released last week both a proposed rule and an interim final rule on two important provisions of an impending incentive program for physicians using electronic health records (EHR) for patient care...
Society and CDC to Host Consensus Conference on Testosterone Assay Standardization The Endocrine Society and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will host a consensus conference to identify key recommendations from the scientific and medical communities on ways to enhance the use of accuracy-based testosterone...
CMS Alters Non-Coverage Language in Response to Society Request In late December, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a national non-coverage decision memo on outpatient intravenous insulin therapy (OIVIT). OIVIT consists of an outpatient regimen of pulsatile...
