Chuck Grassley news and information

The CMS missed its own 2012 deadline to issue the final rule for a regulation that aims to make financial relationships between healthcare providers and manufacturers more transparent.
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The Ways and Means Committee has subpoenaed details on federal funding spent to promote the 2010 federal healthcare overhaul.
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It's estimated that in 2010, providers who self-referred patients for advanced imaging made about 400,000 more referrals than they would have had they not had a financial interest in the imaging equipment and that these referrals cost the Medicare system an additional $109 million, according to a...
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House Republican leaders have threatened to subpoena information from HHS if the department does not respond to a request about the use of taxpayer dollars to promote the reform law.
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Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) requested information from two hospitals and a health system in North Carolina about how they are using the 340B federal drug discount program.
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Congressional Republicans, irate that federal exchange funding has gone to “insert propaganda into the popular culture,” have demanded details on the grants.
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According to two influential GOP lawmakers, doctors will not have their Medicare pay cut by around 30% in January as called for by the sustainable growth-rate reimbursement formula. However, the lawmakers differ on when the much-hated SGR will be repealed for good.
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This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare includes 18 newcomers as well as eight honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.
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A U.S. senator for 31 years and the author of more than 2,000 sometimes hard-to-decipher Twitter messages, Chuck Grassley also has had a long run on the annual 100 Most Influential rankings.
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A member of Congress wants the Treasury Department to look into whether the Internal Revenue Service ignored the American Hospital Association's suggestions when crafting regulations for tax-exempt hospitals.
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