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President Includes Dialysis Provisions in 2012 Budget

President Obama released on Feb. 14 his 2012 Budget Proposal, which included funding for the ESRD Quality Incentive Program (QIP), as well as increased funding for information technology for the ESRD Networks, according to the National Renal Administrators Association ...More
February 18, 2011
Posted in Blog
ASN Opposes House Cuts to NIH Funding

Disagreement is expected with opposing parties in power in Washington D.C., but given the long recession and desire to rein in the deficit the fight over the 2011 national budget could become particularly heated. And this could have an impact on medical research funding. ...More
February 16, 2011
Posted in Blog, Business, Government & Regulation
HHS Names Meaningful Use EHR Accreditors

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has named the first two organizations that have been authorized to test and certify electronic health record (EHR) systems for new meaningful use standards. ...More
August 31, 2010
Posted in News, Government & Regulation
DaVita CEO Ranked 80 in 'Most Powerful' List

DaVita CEO Kent Thiry was listed as the 80th most powerful person in healthcare, according to Modern Healthcare’s annual ranking of power players across the industry ...More
August 24, 2010
Posted in Blog, Business
Healthcare Reform and Dialysis

HEALTHCARE is a thorny issue, and platoons of pundits have happily weighed in on the left and the right to rile up their bases over the past year. ...More
May 5, 2010
Posted in Articles, Business, Government & Regulation, Practice Management
Obama Set to Choose New CMS Leader

WASHINGTON—President Obama will soon name Dr. Donald M. Berwick to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, according to a report from the New York Times. ...More
March 30, 2010
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation
House Passes Health Reform Bill

The controversial U.S. health system transformation won approval on Capitol Hill late Sunday, as stated in a report in The Wall Street Journal.According to the report, "The House gave final passage to the Senate's health legislation on a climactic 219-to-212 vote, as ...More
March 22, 2010
Posted in News, Business, Government & Regulation
Obama Wants to Give MedPAC Power Over Payments

In a letter sent Tuesday to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and his counterpart on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), President Barack Obama has thrown his support behind a measure that would give the ...More
June 4, 2009
Posted in News, Business, Government & Regulation
Senate Confirms Hamburg for FDA Chief

The U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Margaret Hamburg as head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Hamburg will be sworn in as the FDA’s 21st commissioner and only the second woman to hold the post in 100 years of agency history. ...More
May 19, 2009
Posted in News, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation
Sebelius Statement on New Medicare Trustees’ Report

WASHINGTON—Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued the following statement regarding the new Medicare Trustees’ report. ...More
May 13, 2009
Posted in News, Government & Regulation

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