Blawg of the day

19 years ago

Thanks to Tom Mighell, laboring away at Inter Alia, an internet legal research weblog, for picking HealthBlawg as blawg of the…

Health Wonk Review is up at Managed Care Matters

19 years ago

Joe Paduda presents the latest edition of HWR, including posts on CDHP's, Medicare Part D, various goings-on here in Massachusetts,…

IRS rules on EHR funding expected within a few months

19 years ago

Today's iHealthBeat picked up the Modern Healthcare report that IRS rules giving tax-exempt hospitals comfort on how to provide EHRs to…

New Executive Order regularizes process for promulgation of "significant guidance documents"

19 years ago

Last month, President Bush issued an Executive Order amending Executive Order 12866 on Regulatory Planning and Review.  OMB issued a…

Health Wonk Review #26 is up

19 years ago

Health Wonk Review's first blogiversary edition is up at Workers' Comp Insider.  Congrats to Julie Ferguson -- today's host --…

IDTF requirements tightened up in latest CMS transmittal — and then dropped

19 years ago

Update 2/21/07: CMS pulled the manual changes regarding IDTFs this week.  There's nothing more than a one-sentence note where these…

News and notes on universal health care coverage at the state and federal levels

19 years ago

The Century Foundation has posted a discussion among a panel of experts on universal coverage, focusing on state initiatives in…

Is Medicare Part D working?

19 years ago

According to the pharmacy benefit managers' trade association:Medicare prescription drug plans (PDPs) achieved higher-than-expected savings of 29 percent during 2006…

OIG Chief Counsel Lewis Morris on pharma fraud and abuse

19 years ago

Lewis Morris, Chief Counsel to the Inspector General, testified last Friday before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee,…