On Wednesday, April 30, 2014, the House Ways and Means Committee will focus on "Ideas to Improve Medicare Oversight to Reduce Waste, Fraud and Abuse."

These rules should be released late October or early November.

The GAO has released a report entitled "Medicare: Bidding Results from CMS’s Durable Medical Equipment Competitive Bidding Program".

The Obama Administration has released its latest regulatory agenda, which lists major pending or planned regulatory actions and the anticipated timing of rulemaking activity.

On January 7, 2014, HHS published a proposed rule that would modify the HIPAA Privacy Rule to expressly permit certain HIPAA covered entities to disclose to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) the identities of individuals who are prohibited under federal law from shipping, transporting, possessing, or receiving a firearm for reasons related to mental health.

HHS has published a notice announcing the Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (eFMAP), and disaster-recovery FMAP adjustments for fiscal year (FY) 2015.

On July 17, 2013, the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved H.R. 698, the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act.

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health has scheduled a two-day hearing for January 21 and 22 to discuss how to pass Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) reform legislation.

CMS recently published a correction notice addressing typographical and technical errors in its May 10, 2013 proposed rule updating Medicare inpatient prospective payment system and long-term acute care hospital prospective payment system rates and policies for fiscal year 2014.

CMS published a notice announcing the final federal share disproportionate share hospital allotments for federal fiscal year 2012 and the preliminary federal share DSH allotments for FY 2013.

On July 28, 2015, the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health held a hearing to discuss rural health care disparities created by Medicare regulations.

On June 18, 2015, HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell and Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced that a nationwide Medicare Fraud Strike Force sweep resulted in health fraud charges against 243 individuals involving approximately $712 million in false billings.

On February 24, 2016, the Senate confirmed Robert M. Califf, MD, MACC, as U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner.

A pair of recent decisions adds more fuel to the debate over forum shopping by debtors.

At long last, the 2013 contracts are available. Although hard copies of the books are still being printed, the first digital versions of the Commercials Contract and Radio Recorded Commercials Contract are available.

The FCC is asking for comments on a letter it received from the National Association of Attorneys General that seeks out the Commission’s opinion on the legality of telephone carriers implementing call-blocking technology to reduce the amount of unwanted telemarketing calls

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SAG-AFTRA members voted by an overwhelming 96% to approve the 2013 Commercials Contracts.

In response to France's Digital Services Tax (DST), the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) proposed additional ad valorem duties of up to 100 percent

The Article 29 Working Party (WP29), consisting of representatives from each of the member states data protection authorities, is expected to meet on 25 July 2016 to give its view on the Privacy Shield framework.