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INDEX 1998
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- Dec. 28: Delegates cement E&M opposition The AMA house expressed outrage at HCFA's evaluation and management guidelines
- Dec. 28 Feature: Spin doctors How physicians balance PR for marketing with ways to maintain credibility
- Dec. 21: Delegates endorse AMA revamp The AMA house largely approved the committee's report on governance changes
- Dec. 21 Feature: Wisdom of history Medical historians encourage doctors who don't know much about history to look ahead
- Dec. 14: FSMB oversight proposals Plans to regulate residents are raising concerns in medical education
- Dec. 14 Feature: Painful realities The business of pain management has become as complex as treating pain itself
- Dec. 7: PROs on payment error A draft contract enables them to curb improper Medicare payments
- Dec. 7 Feature: Ouchless medicine Will needleless drug delivery work, and how will it impact care and compliance?
- Nov. 23/30: Specialists sue over practice expense rule Facing lower Medicare pay, 11 societies sue HCFA, reopening debate
- Nov. 23/30 Feature: Medical business acumen The growing number of physicians seeking business skills can find MBA programs tailored to their needs
- Nov. 16: New Medicare practice expense rule A four-year transition will boost pay for office-based doctors and lower them for specialists
- Nov. 16 Feature: Blood, Sweat & Hemoglobin The long, halting search for artificial blood takes some new twists
- Nov. 9: Patient death prompts use of new Texas HMO law First case citing the pioneering HMO liability law involves discharge of suicidal patient
- Nov. 2: Ruling advances HMO liability A Pennsylvania appeals court has made it easier for patients to sue HMOs for malpractice
- Oct. 26: Reaction to HMO flight A bill and a White House initiative aim to protect Medicare HMO enrollees
- Oct. 19: Challenging the new transplant rules HHS plans to de-regionalize organ transplants are blocked by last-minute injunction
- Oct. 12: Offshore school expansion an issue Wyoming officials seek to derail Dominica-based Ross University's Casper campus
- Oct. 5: Slow start for Medicare MSAs As adjournment nears, the Starr report distracts congressional attention
- Sept. 28: Time running out on patient protection A short time-frame for applications and seniors' fears cited in lack of interest
- Sept. 21: Consensus eludes Medicare reform panel Hearing spotlights an array of conflicting perspectives from 31 interest groups
- Sept. 14: Insurance reform law falls short Lack of education among consumers and regulators may have thwarted its effectiveness
- Sept. 7: Ruling muddies off-label waters A U.S. judge finds the FDA's rules on off-lable promotion needlessly limiting
- Aug. 24: Redefining discipline The FSMB calls on state boards for more aggressive action against substandard care
- Aug. 17: Sunbeam lawsuit settled The AMA has paid $9.9 million to resolve the controversial marketing dispute
- Aug. 10: Medical devices and year 2000 Many manufacturers have still not disclosed if devices are Y2K compliant
- Aug. 3: Zero hour for patient protection As Congress winds down, efforts intensify to pass one of several competing bills
- July 27: Aid suicide, lose DEA license Opposition mounts to a bill to strip DEA licenses of doctors who give suicide aide
- July 20: FTC warning on group mergers Single and multispecialtly group practice mergers face increased antitrust scrutiny
- July 13: GOP goal: Affordable insurance Consumer and insurance groups fear mandate exemptions could further erode small-group market
- July 6: HCFA reveals Medicare+Choice details Massive Medicare reform rules may be biggest change in program's history
- June 29: House rejects E&M checklist AMA delegates voted against the government's evaluation and management methodology
- June 15/22: United buys Humana The $55 billion purchase will create the largest U.S. managed care company
- June 1: New quality panel Three national accreditors agree on performance measures
- June 1: AMA's new chief executive Former Air Force Surgeon General E. Ratcliffe Anderson Jr., MD, take the helm
- May 25: Federal health EDI guidelines Rules would create new identifiers, standard formats for electronic transactions
- May 18: Assisted reproduction guidelines A boom in fertility treatments prompts recommmendations from a New York panel
- May 11: Indefinite delay on E&M At AMA fly-in, HCFA pledges cooperation, improvement on Medicare guidelines
- May 4: Transplant patient noncompliance Suprisingly, this little-discussed problem is gaining in importance
- April 27: Corporate product endorsements In the wake of Sunbeam, professional medical organizations are still finding partnerships
- April 20: GOP works on insurance affordability But consumers question if tax incentives would benefit many
- April 13: Assisted suicide begins in Oregon The first two legal physician-aided deaths stir reactions from both sides
- April 6: E&M audit leads to payment denials An ongoing Medicare audit cites poor documention in reducing or denying 60% of claims
- March 23: Clinton addresses medicine's leaders
- Clinton pledges to work for teen tobacco curb
- President pushes his proposal for patient rights
- Medicare panel's near-elderly buy-in proposal stirs debate
- March 16: Physician acquited of murder Charges of criminal negligence were dismissed in the death of a California infant
- March 9: FDA reform Agency faces challenge implementing off-label promotion provisions
- March 2: AMA acts on E&M flap The AMA has launched a plan to address "evaluation and management" coding concerns
- Feb. 23: Human cloning bills Two major bills in Congress differ on whether cloning would be allowed for research
- Feb. 16: HHS 1999 budget released Physicians can expect some new Medicare user fees in the $317 billion package
- Feb. 9: Opposition mounts to visit code guidelines AMA pledges a redoubled effort to refine the document, educate physicians
- Feb. 2: MedPac report goes to Congress The panel's first annual report calls for delay in certain practice expense cuts
- Jan. 26: Stark II rules unveiled The government moves closer to implementing the complex 1993 self-referral law
- Jan. 19: Medicare private contracting Right to opt out of Medicare at issue in lawsuit filed by seniors group. Medicare private contracting Doctor pay issues top Medicare agenda for new HCFA chief
- Jan. 12: Lawsuit over prenatal screen patent A patent on a common test for Down syndrome is being challenged as a method patent
- Jan. 5: Columbia empire shrinking Spin-offs leave some physician practices and hospitals in limbo
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