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Regulatory Review Unlikely To Lighten Your Load On F2F

Published on Tue May 17, 2011

Health care reform provisions won't undergo scrutiny. Don't expect a sudden reprieve to come from above from your new regulatory burdens related to last year's health care reform law. In January, President Obama directed the Department of Health and Human Services to identify regulations for streamlining or elimination. Some home care providers hoped that might apply to the new face-to-face encounter regulations, which impose unnecessarily burdensome documentation requirements for physicians. But don't hold your breath. HHS will not be reviewing provisions from the Affordable Care Act law, HHS assistant secretary for planning and evaluation Sherry Glied said at a recent House hearing on the president's order. Affordable Care Act rules are too new for review, Glied testified, according to news reports. See the executive order at www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/18/improvingregulation-and-regulatory-review-executive-order.
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