The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has issued proposed rules for stage 3 Meaningful Use (MU) and the proposed 2015 edition EHR criteria under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs.

While roughly 10 million Americans have been newly insured under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), healthcare providers apparently aren’t being overwhelmed by new patients, according to a new report.

North Dakota has put into law a measure setting licensing standards and expanding the responsibilities of the state’s radiographers, radiation therapist, radiology assistants, nuclear medicine technologists, and sonographers.

Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has introduced legislation to eliminate the medical device tax and replace the lost revenue by raising taxes on oil and gas companies. 

The House of Representatives voted Thursday in favor of legislation that would get rid of Medicare’s sustainable growth rate formula. The measure now goes to the Senate, where there will be pressure to ac quickly to avoid an automatic 21.2% cut in Medicare reimbursements to physicians that is scheduled to go into effect April 1.

Adults who are at low risk for coronary heart disease shouldn’t undergo screening with resting or stress electrocardiography, stress echocardiography, or stress myocardial perfusion imaging, according to an article published in the Annals of Internal Medicine by the American College of Physicians (ACP). 

Leaders in the House and Senate Thursday introduced legislation that would repeal Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula and avoid a 21.2% reimbursement reduced scheduled for April 1.

Cancer patients are living longer than ever before, and have access to more treatment options for cancer with the knowledge that hundreds of cancer therapies are now in in research and development. But, despite “significant” progress in the fight against cancer, the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) report, “The State of Cancer Care in America: 2015,” points out that “profound changes occurring in the cancer care practice landscape …threaten patient access to these advances.”