With the state having a furlough day today, I was finally able to catch up and update the bill tracker! You’ll see the majority of the new bills listed all pertain to the FY10-11 Budget. Things will pick up again next week as a lot of bills that have...

With Congress failing to act on preventing the 21% Medicare reimbursement cuts to physicians, CMS has announced they will not pay claims for the first 10 business days in April.

With the Senate failing to extend the Medicare SGR formula before Congress left for the 2-week recess, physicians again are faced with a 21.3% cut in Medicare reimbursement effective April 1st. The House already passed H.R. 4851, which includes an extension of the SGR Medicare formula, in addition to...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced that funding will be available to HIT Regional Extension Centers (REC) to provide Critical Access Hospitals with technical assistance to adopt and achieve meaningful use of electronic health records. This is exciting news given that originally...

This whitepaper is the first in a series of privacy and security reports developed by George Washington University under contract with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. The paper examines issues regarding whether, to what extent, and how individuals should have the ability to exercise...