http://www.modernhealthcare.com Legislation and Regulation en-us 144 21 http://www.modernhealthcare.com http://www.modernhealthcare.com/graphics/icons/rss.gif Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:59:00 EST Commercial healthcare laboratories are seeking parity with other healthcare providers under privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:59:00 EST California hospital owners are having trouble meeting the state-mandated deadlines for making their buildings more resistant to damage from earthquakes, saying that the ailing economy has left them unable to fund the improvements. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:59:00 EST The Justice Department trumpeted a recent $2.3 billion criminal plea and civil settlement with Pfizer as its largest healthcare case ever. At its core was the receptiveness of thousands of physicians to the company's overtures of tropical getaways... Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:59:00 EST Early this month, Loyola University Health System took its incinerator offline just days before the Environmental Protection Agency issued a new rule that will require medical-waste processors to make expensive upgrades that further reduce... Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:59:00 EST While the president and his allies in Congress attempt to remake the healthcare landscape, the president's antitrust enforcers are contemplating the first substantial rewrite of their guidebook on mergers since 1992. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:59:00 EST Preparing for a mid-November public comment period deadline, renal-care providers last week wasted no time analyzing the CMS' newly proposed prospective payment system for facilities that provide dialysis services to Medicare beneficiaries with... Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:59:00 EST Hospitals and healthcare finance insiders are lobbying the CMS to revise proposed changes to how it requires hospitals to report uncompensated care. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:59:00 EST Hospitals and physicians say they're in favor of the growing number of CMS demonstrations to improve quality -- they just want to make sure they get reimbursed fairly if and when these demos are put into practice. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:59:00 EST The Food and Drug Administration is showing signs that an overhaul of its beleaguered medical-products review programs is in the works, observers say. Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:59:00 EST HHS is consolidating authority for both security- and privacy-rule enforcement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 with the Office for Civil Rights at HHS. Some industry observers say the action could -- but not...