Government
Tis the season again of crowded mall parking lots, crowded big box stores, holiday office parties and discussion of permanently fixing the "sustainable growth rate" (SGR) permeating Congress. Many media reports now of strong, bipartisan...
Driving home on Wednesday for the Thanksgiving holiday - this headline hit the inbox late on the 27th. As expected, some reimbursement cuts to key pathology and laboratory tests. The Pathology Blawg has a far better write up on this than I...
CAP expects the final 2014 rule to include cuts to the following pathology code families: Immunohistochemistry – 88342 (PC & TC) Enhanced Cytology Services – 88112 (PC & TC) In situ Hybridization – 88365, 88367, and...
Clifton Park, New York (PRWEB) October 29, 2013 -- Kitware, a leader in medical computing applications, announced $1M in new funding from the National Institutes of Health to enhance and further deploy its open-source digital pathology...
Bloomberg News (10/12, Rowley, Tiron, Hunter) reported that Senate Republicans said President Obama “didn’t rule out” repealing a medical device tax in a Friday meeting with them on how to end the governing impasse. Sen. Orrin Hatch said,...
Courtesy of Roll Call by Joel White (Sept. 18, 2013) The Medicare program, and the 49 million elderly and disabled Americans who rely on it, are facing an uphill battle when it comes to quality and cost. Some 10,000 baby boomers sign...
