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The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies held a hearing regarding President Obama’s FY 2011 budget request for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
March 2010 Advocacy Update
With the House expected to adopt the Senate-passed version of health reform legislation, an ASH-supported provision to require coverage of routine patient costs associated with clinical trial participation is expected to be included in the final bill.
Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives hope to have vote on a final health reform bill this Sunday or early next week. It remains unclear, however, as to whether House Democrats will be able to get the 216 votes necessary to pass health reform.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a boxed warning to the anti-blood clotting drug Plavix (clopidogrel), alerting patients and health care professionals that the drug can be less effective in people who cannot metabolize the drug to convert it to its active form.
In order to avoid the 21 percent Medicare physician payment cut scheduled to begin on April 1, the House of Representatives and Senate must agree on language and have it approved by both chambers.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Medicare Learning Network (MLN) has announced the availability of new and updated resources to assist physicians with coding given the elimination on January 1, 2010 of CPT consultation codes (ranges 99241-99245 and 99251-99255).
March Practice Update (part one)
Congressional negotiators assembling a health-care overhaul package are considering procedural as well as policy details as they try to obtain the votes needed in both the House and Senate to complete President Obama’s legislative priority.
On March 24, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will require that all drugs called erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) be prescribed and used under a risk management program, known as a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS), to ensure the safe use of these drugs.
On March 9, the U.S. Senate passed HR 4213, a bill to extend certain tax policies and stimulate job growth, by a vote of 62-36. The bill also includes a provision that would extend current Medicare physician payment rates until October 1, 2010.
ASH continues to work with several advocacy coalitions and the Department of Health and Human Services on efforts to increase public awareness of DVT as a major public health problem.
Three critical recommendations from a national workshop have been released to address deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), a growing public health problem estimated to affect nearly 1 million Americans each year.
Alison Walker, MD, has been selected to receive the ASH-AMFDP Award, and will begin her research in acute myeloid leukemia in July of this year.
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