Making headlines across the country this week the Obama Administration announced it will not appeal an earlier ruling of the 11th Circuit that struck down the individual mandate provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) (P.L. 111-148), clearing the way for a 2012 ruling by the Supreme Court. Elsewhere:
- A case in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida attempting to overturn the injunction that bars the public from seeing Medicare billing records has been given a green light to proceed.
- President Obama’s solicitor general has been granted permission to help argue a high profile Medicaid case regarding reimbursement cuts in California next month.
- In the continuing wave of food recalls, the FDA warns consumers not to eat raw oysters harvested from Hood Canal in Washington state amid concerns of illness caused byVibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria.
- CMS issued a summarizing report on the one year anniversary of the Patient’s Bill of Rights created by PPACA.
- A look at patient care summaries as either data or documents.
- Two people are appealing Medicare fraud convictions in Miami after receiving some of the longest jail sentences in Medicare history.
