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    <description>Keeping you up-to-date on the constantly changing reimbursement in the United States.</description>
    
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    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CMS Announces Final Rates, Rules for 2010 Outpatient and Physician Services</title>
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      <title>Attention Physician Practices, Imaging Centers:  Tell Congress to Stop Additional Imaging Cuts</title>
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      <description>Attention Physician Practices, Imaging Centers:  Tell Congress to Stop Additional Imaging Cuts</description>
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      <title>Philips Comments on 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule</title>
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      <description>Philips Comments on 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule</description>
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      <title>Philips Comments on 2010 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System</title>
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      <description>Philips Comments on 2010 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:46:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Experts Tell Philips Webinar Audience that Global Payment Systems are Coming</title>
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      <description>Experts Tell Philips Webinar Audience that Global Payment Systems are Coming</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:22:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CMS Releases Proposed 2010 Physician Fee Schedule Rule</title>
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      <description>Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the proposed physician fee schedule rule for 2010</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:15:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Medicare Proposes New Hospital Inpatient Policies, Payment Levels for Fiscal 2010</title>
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      <description>Medicare Proposes New Hospital Inpatient Policies, Payment Levels for Fiscal 2010<br />May 6, 2009</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 8 May 2009 18:07:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Philips Webinar on Health Reform Draws Nationwide Audience</title>
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      <description>Philips Webinar on Health Reform Draws Nationwide Audience<br />May 5, 2009</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 7 May 2009 15:09:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>President Obama Establishes White House Office of Health Reform</title>
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      <description>President Obama Establishes White House Office of Health Reform<br />April 16, 2009</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:55:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CMS expands PET Medicare coverage for cancer patients</title>
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      <description>CMS expands PET Medicare coverage for cancer patients<br />April 3, 2009</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:11:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>“Medical Home” Webinar Draws Nationwide Audience</title>
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      <description>“Medical Home” Webinar Draws Nationwide Audience<br />February 17, 2009</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:53:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Reimbursement Simplified Webinar Series presents-The Medical Home: A Model for Health Reform?</title>
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      <description>Reimbursement Simplified Webinar Series presents-The Medical Home: A Model for Health Reform?<br />February 17, 2009, 1:30–2:45 pm ET</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:48:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CMS Proposes Broader Coverage of PET Scans as Cancer Diagnostic Tools</title>
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      <description>CMS Proposes Broader Coverage of PET Scans as Cancer Diagnostic Tools<br />January 6, 2009 </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:48:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Medicare Physician Payment Rates for Echo Procedures Too Low, Says Philips</title>
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      <description>Medicare Physician Payment Rates for Echo Procedures Too Low, Says Philips<br />December 22, 2008</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:49:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Senators Ask GAO to Monitor CMS Choice of Imaging Accrediting Organizations</title>
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      <description>Senators Ask GAO to Monitor CMS Choice of Imaging Accrediting Organizations<br />December 5, 2008</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:49:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Members of Congress Urge National Medicare Coverage of CT Colonoscopy</title>
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      <description>Members of Congress Urge National Medicare Coverage of CT Colonoscopy<br />November 10, 2008</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:09:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CMS Announces ’09 Payment Rates for Physicians and Outpatient Departments</title>
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      <description>CMS Announces ’09 Payment Rates for Physicians and Outpatient Departments<br />November 6, 2008</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:09:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Philips Webinar on Provisions of MIPPA Law Draws Nationwide Customer Audience.</title>
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      <description>Philips Webinar on Provisions of MIPPA Law Draws Nationwide Customer Audience.<br />October 14, 2008</description>
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      <title>Clinical Trial Finds Accuracy of Virtual colonoscopy Comparable to Standard Colonoscopy</title>
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      <description>Clinical Trial Finds Accuracy of Virtual colonoscopy Comparable to Standard Colonoscopy<br />September 18, 2008</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:09:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Philips Comments on Medicare’s Proposed 2009 Hospital Outpatient Payment Rule</title>
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      <description>Philips Comments on Medicare’s Proposed 2009 Hospital Outpatient Payment Rule<br />September 2, 2008</description>
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      <title>Philips Comments on Medicare’s Proposed 2009 Physician Fee Schedule</title>
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      <description>Philips Comments on Medicare’s Proposed 2009 Physician Fee Schedule<br />September 2, 2008</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:09:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Deadline for Accreditation as a Condition of Reimbursement to 4th Quarter 2009</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:10:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Philips Files Comments in Support of Medicare's National Coverage Assessment on Screening CT Colonography for Colorectal Cancer</title>
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      <description>Philips Files Comments in Support of Medicare's National Coverage Assessment on Screening CT Colonography for Colorectal Cancer<br />June 18, 2008</description>
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