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Healthcare lobbies increased spending in 2010
Amidst last year's battle over healthcare reform and Medicare payments to physicians, the American Medical Association ratcheted up its spending on lobbying, reports Kaiser Health News. The
Dow Jones sues to expose Medicare payment data on crooked docs
Since 1979, a court injunction has blocked access to Medicare records that would reveal which doctors are bilking the $500 billion system. Yesterday, Dow Jones & Company, the Wall Street
Another one-month 'doc-fix' patch is likely
Despite hard lobbying by the American Medical Association for Congress to pass a 13-month patch to the Sustainable Growth Rate formula--which would prevent doctors from seeing a 23 percent cut in
AMA chides Congress on SGR
The American Medical Association has again taken Congress to task for the way it deals with potential cuts in Medicare payments to physicians, and has asked for a long-term solution to address the
