May 8 2012
Now on Kaiser Health News' blog, Jenny Gold reports on a new timelime for implementation of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act: "CMS has announced that the agency will not require companies to collect transparency data before January 1, 2013. The new timeline is a delay from the original ... which required HHS to come up with final reporting procedures by October 1, 2011. Instead, draft regulations were released in December of 2011; during the following 60-day comment period, CMS was bombarded with more than 300 comments from stakeholders (Gold, 5/7).
Also on the blog, Christian Torres reports: "Whoever ends up controlling the White House next year – Barack Obama or Mitt Romney – will have to make compromises if they are to solve the nation's current budget and health care crises. 'I think we know what to do,' Alice Rivlin, a former director of the Office of Management and Budget, said Friday afternoon as part of a Brookings Institution panel about how the next president could curb spiraling health care costs" (Torres, 5/4). Check out what else is on the blog.
This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente. |