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email article WASHINGTON -- Most healthcare groups are pleased with the COVID-19 stimulus bill passed in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, although some advocates say more help is needed. "The government spending and coronavirus relief package passed by Congress late last night contains numerous provisions ... important to medical group practices," Anders Gilberg, senior vice president for government affairs at the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), said in a statement. "The $3 billion injection into the Medicare physician fee schedule will mitigate MGMA-opposed payment cuts...

email article WASHINGTON -- Healthcare providers, if you're concerned that any guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be taken as gospel and enforced as regulation by Washington bureaucrats, HHS has two words for you: Don't worry. On December 3, the agency finalized a Good Guidance Practices rule "to help ensure that the public receives appropriate notice of new guidance documents and that HHS guidance documents do not impose obligations on regulated parties that are not already reflected in statutes or regulations," HHS said in a press release. "This fin...

email article The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new rule Thursday that aims to ease clinicians' workload by streamlining prior authorizations (PAs) giving clinicians more time to see patients. If you're a physician, you probably already knew that because you already do PAs or have tasked your staff with them, and, based on our survey, you really, really hate them!! "Each element of this proposed rule would play a key role in reducing onerous administrative burden on our frontline providers while improving patient access to health information," said CMS Admi...

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