How many women will lose coverage of annual breast cancer screening if the draft breast screening recommendations announced by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) in April are implemented? Approximately 17 million women ages 40 to 49 would lose guaranteed coverage of mammography, according to recent analysis by Avalere.

A group of Democrats wrote a letter to House leadership, urging them to consider H.R. 160, the Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2015, which would repeal a medical device tax found within the ACA. 

Senate leaders have formed a bipartisan group to establish ways to identify ways to improve EHRs in the United States.

The deadline for ICD-10 implementation is rapidly approaching, but a new House bill threatens to stop the new code system from ever coming to fruition. 

The ACR has come out in support of H.R. 2043, the Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act, which aims to repeal imaging cuts the ACR feels are “unnecessary and may do more harm than good.”

Physician practices increasingly are affiliating or merging with other practices or aligning with or being acquired by hospitals in order to better support the investments needed to successfully implement alternative payment models, according to a new RAND report released in March.

CMS has proposed key changes to MU stages 1 and 2, including shortening the EHR testing period from one year to 90 days and loosening previous patient engagement requirements.

After proposing a pay cut of 0.95% in 2016, CMS reconsidered, surprising Medicare Advantage providers with a 1.25% pay raise in its final payment and policy updates for the Medicare Advantage and Part D Prescription Drug programs.