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CMS eases rules to cut doctors’ regulatory burdens
Changes to proposed regulations on Medicare conditions of participation will maintain self-governing medical staff requirements at hospitals and save nearly $1 billion.
Physicians receive federal innovation grants
With support from the health system reform law, 26 projects aim to reduce health spending through decreased utilization and improved primary care access.
Federal grants help health center expansions, not operations
Facilities are seeing millions more patients thanks in part to special federal dollars, but they also want to see their base grants boosted.
Medicare’s new approach to familiar diseases
Some see coverage of intensive cardiac rehab and weight-loss counseling as growing acknowledgment that traditional medicine has limits in tackling heart disease and obesity.
Stage 2 meaningful use rules sharply criticized by physicians
The American Medical Association and state and specialty societies call for less aggressive criteria in the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive program.

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