Legal & Regulatory Issues

Most practices are frustrated with reporting requirements for Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting Initiative and unhappy with its guidances to improve outcomes, according to a release by the Medical Group Management Association.

A federal appeals court has stopped the State of California from cutting Medi-Cal payments to physicians and hospitals by 5 percent, according to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Virginia lawmakers are expected this week to pass legislation that would prohibit health insurance mandates and would make clear that no individual can be required to obtain coverage, according to a report by the Boston Globe.

Rejecting Republicans' call for a fresh start on health reform legislation, President Obama is asking Congress for a final vote within weeks to reconcile separate bills already passed by the House and Senate, according to a report by the New…

Democrats' new push to pass their health reform legislation is reigniting concerns that Congress could ban any new growth of physician-owned hospitals.

Moody's Investors Service will require all rated not-for-profit hospitals and health systems to provide more information on their ability to convert investments into cash, according to a report by the Dallas Morning News.

President Don Mordecai and Government Relations Chairman Victor Long of the Oklahoma Association of Nurse Anesthetists spoke out against a controversial bill in the Oklahoma Senate that would prohibit certified registered nurse anesthetists from providing certain injections for patients with…

President Obama has signed a measure extending the federal subsidy of COBRA health insurance premiums for laid-off workers through March 31, according to a report by the New York Labor Law & Employment Report.

President Obama will consider adopting four proposals Congressional Republicans suggested in last week's healthcare summit on the president's health reform legislation, according to a letter the White House sent Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress.

Following up on Congress' one-month extension of the Medicare physician fee-fix, a new measure in the Senate would further extend the fee fix as well as federal assistance for state Medicaid programs and COBRA coverage, according to a release by…