Legal & Regulatory Issues

The American Gastroenterological Association has issued a preliminary analysis of the CMS proposed rules for 2013 Medicare reimbursement.

President Obama on Monday signed into law the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act, which included provisions to alleviate critical drug shortages.

Contrary to popular belief, reducing nonurgent visits to the emergency department — or visits deemed inappropriate for the ED — may not produce cost savings, according to a study in Annals of Emergency Medicine (pdf).

Body mass index, not weight, should be used to determine the amount of propofol administered to children, according to a study reported in Anesthesia & Analgesia.

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (D) will sign an executive order to create a health insurance exchange, making his the 13th state to do so, according to a Hill report.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act might conjure up notions of individual mandates, health exchanges or Medicaid expansion, but there's much more to the law than its hot-button provisions.

HHS and CMS have issued the final rule on new standards for electronic funds transfer and electronic healthcare claims attachments, which establish how healthcare providers can use electronic systems to determine a patient's eligibility for health coverage and check on…

Medicare billing practices at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville are the subject of a probe by the U.S. Department of Justice and Office of Inspector General, according to a Tennessean report.

FBI and state investigators seized medical files from the mental clinic at Riverside General Hospital in Houston yesterday, four months after an RGH executive was arrested for his role in a $116 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to a Houston…

The annual National Governors Association convention, which begins this Friday, will likely focus on the Supreme Court's healthcare ruling, according to a Washington Post report.