tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 12

Regulation: HEALTH SUBPANEL APPROVES REG REFORM

It only seems like it’s once a month that the House votes to streamline Medicare regulations. Actually, it’s more like once a year that the House passes Medicare regulatory and contracting reform, which has so far nevertheless failed to be brought up on the Senate floor. The House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee March 20 unanimously approved a bipartisan bill similar to the one they passed last year. The measure they approved, developed by Chair Nancy Johnson (R-CT), moves administrative law judges that hear Medicare appeals from the Social Security Administration to the Department of Health and...

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