| Health Policy Regulations |
 Final Rule - Physicians referrals to health care entities with which they have financial relationships (Phase III) – September 5, 2007
Proposed Rule - Ambulatory surgical centers; coverage conditions – August 31, 2007
GAO-06-704 Medicare Physician Services: Use of Services Increasing Nationwide and Relatively Few Beneficiaries Report Major Access Problems
GAO-07-86 - Medicare: Payment for Ambulatory Surgical Centers Should Be Based on the Hospital Outpatient Payment System
DEA Practitioner’s Manual
Medicare Issues Proposed Rule for ASC's Serving Medicare Patients
 Texas Workers' Compensation Regulations
Federal Register and Notices
Limit on Number of Buprenorphine Patients Per Physician
CMS Rulings
CMD Rulemaking - Electronic Comment Submission
Health and Human Services (HHS)
Pain Physician Journal
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
SAMHSA
DEA
GAO
CMS 855I - (to change your specialty designation code)
CMS Manual System
Federal Register
| Healthcare Update Articles |
Health Care Reform in the United States: Radical Surgery Needed Now More Than Ever
Physician Refer Thyself: Is Stark II, Phase III the Final Voyage?
Interventional Techniques in Ambulatory Surgical Centers: A Look at the New Payment System
Physician Payment 2008 for Interventionalists: Current State of Health Care Policy
Interventional Techniques in Ambulatory Surgery Centers: A Look at the New Payment System
National Drug Control Policy and Prescription
Drug Abuse: Facts and Fallacies
2007 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplemetary Medical Insurance Trust Funds
2006 National Survey on Drug Use & Health – September 6, 2007 Results
National Health Expenditure Trends 1975–2006
National Health Spending In 2005: The Slowdown Continues - Health Affairs, Number 1, January/ February 2007
Issues in Health Care: Interventional Pain Management at the Crossroads - Pain Physician, 2007
Prescription drug abuse: What is being done to address this new drug epidemic? Testimony before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources - Pain Physician, 2006
Health Spending Projections Through 2016: Modest Changes Obscure Part D’s Impact, Feb, 2007
Medicare in Interventional Pain Management: A Critical Analysis - Pain Physician, 2006
Do financial incentives in a globally budgeted healthcare payment system produce changes in the way patients are categorized? A five-year study. Am J Manag Care. 2007 Sep;13(9):513-22
Moving research into practice: lessons from the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's IDSRN program. Implement Sci. 2007 Mar 29;2:9
How to Appeal Medicare Denial
Download a pdf step-by-step guide through the appeals process
MedPac Report - A Data Book: Healthcare Spending and the Medicare Program (June 2007)
Medicare payment basics: Ambulatory surgical centers payment system (September 29, 2006)
Medicare payment basics: Outpatient hospital services payment system (September 29, 2006)
Medicare payment basics: Physician services payment system (September 29, 2006)
Report to the Congress: Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals Revisited (August 2006)
Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2006)
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