Call to Action

RBMA keeps its members informed of late-breaking news of a regulatory or congressional nature via e-Alerts.

• RBMA Comments on CMS' Stage 2 Meaningful Use Proposed Rule (5/3/2012)
• RBMA and ACR Issue Revised RBM Best Practices Guidelines (4/27/2012)
• RBMA Issues CMS POS/ZIP Code Guidance (3/28/2012)
• CMS Issues Stage 2 Meaningful Use Proposed Rule (2/27/2012)
• President Signs 10-Month SGR Fix; Fails to Extend DXA Rates (2/24/2012)
• President’s FY 2013 Budget Includes Imaging Prior-Authorization and Equipment Utilization Rate Hike (2/20/2012)
• House and Senate Reach Deal on 10-Month SGR Fix (2/16/2012)
• CMS Issues New POS Guidance Consistent with RBMA’s Recommendations (2/8/2012)
• RBMA Meets with HIT National Coordinator Dr. Mostashari and Key ONC and CMS Staff on Meaningful Use (1/26/2012)
• ACR Praises RBMA Partnership in Advocacy (1/25/2012)
• CMS to Rescind Group Practice Provision of MPPR-PC (12/19/2011)
• House Passes Two-Year SGR Fix; Bill’s Fate in Senate Unclear (12/14/2011)
• RBMA Releases Summary of 2012 Medicare Fee Schedule Final Rule (11/03/2011)
• RBMA Opposes Proposed Medicare Professional Component Cuts (08/29/2011)
• Deadline to Oppose CMS' Proposed Professional Component Cuts Approaching Rapidly (08/22/2011)
• RBMA Comments on Proposed HIPAA Disclosures Accounting Regulations (07/28/2011)
• Oppose CMS’ Proposed Professional Component Cuts (07/18/2011)
• Cuts to Imaging “On the Table” as Part of Debt Ceiling Negotiations (07/12/2011)
• Senate Finance Committee Backs off of Equipment Utilization Rate Hike (07/01/2011)
•  Free Trade Bill Includes a 90 Percent Equipment Utilization Rate (06/29/2011)
•  Bipartisan Letter Challenges MedPAC’s Imaging Utilization Data/Additional Cuts to Imaging (06/10/2011)
• CMS Publishes Long-Awaited ACO Proposed Rule (03/31/2011)
• President's 2012 Budget Proposal Includes $54.4 Billion for Two-Year SGR "Fix"; No New Payment Cuts to Imaging (02/14/2011)
• Aetna to Implement Multiple Procedure Reduction Impacting the Professional Component (01/28/2011)
• Congress Averts SGR Cuts for 12 Months (12/09/2010)
• Congress Votes to Exempt Physicians from ‘Red Flag Rules’, RBMA Led Early Efforts for Exemption (12/09/2010)
• RBMA Releases Summary of 2011 Medicare Fee Schedule Final Rule (11/04/2010)
• AMA/Specialties Press Congressional Leaders for a 13 Month SGR Fix Extension (09/30/2010)
• The Seemingly Eternal Quest for a Permanent SGR Fix (09/27/2010)
• RBMA Comments to CMS on 2011 Medicare Fee Schedule Proposed Rule; Opposes Expansion of Medicare’s Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction Policy (08/30/2010)
• Contact your Representatives to Move Senate SGR Fix (06/24/10) 
• Senate Passes Six-Month SGR Fix after CMS' Claims Hold Expires (06/18/10) 
• Timing of Senate Action on a SGR Fix Uncertain (06/11/10) 
• SGR Fix – Fate Rests in the Senate (06/04/10) 
• House Proposes Four-Year SGR Fix (05/20/10) 
• House Poised to Introduce Five-Year SGR Fix (05/14/10) 
• Congress Considering Longer-Term SGR Fix (05/03/10)
• Senate Fails to Extend SGR Freeze before Deadline (03/26/10)
• SGR Update: Several Proposals, No Solutions (03/23/10)
• Budget Reconciliation Now Moves to the Senate (03/22/10)
• House Budget Reconciliation Language to Include 75 Percent Equipment Utilization Rate (03/18/10)
• Levin Introduces 30-day SGR Extension (03/17/10)
• Healthcare Reform - Irreconcilable Differences? (03/12/10)
• President Signs 30-day SGR Freeze Extension (03/03/10)
• Imaging Equipment Utilization Surveys Accepted Through March 5th (03/01/10)
• One Week Left to Complete the 2010 Imaging Equipment Utilization Survey (02/23/10)
• Healthcare Reform and SGR Fix – Fates Uncertain (02/19/10)
• CMS Delays PECOS Enrollment Requirement for Referring Physicians to January 3, 2011 (02/17/10)
• 2010 Imaging Equipment Utilization Survey Goes Live (02/17/10)
• 2010 Imaging Equipment Utilization Survey Opens Soon (01/19/10)
• Call to Action: White House Favors House's 75 Percent Utilization Rate (01/13/10)
• Conference Process Set to Begin for House and Senate Leaders (01/07/10)
• Outlook on Healthcare Reform (12/23/09)
• House Approves Defense Appropriations Bill; Freezes Medicare Physician Payment Rate for Two Months (12/17/09)
• Senate Endgame??? (12/16/09)
• U.S. Senate Considers Healthcare Reform Amendments (12/08/09)
• Senate Set for Cloture Vote on Healthcare Reform Bill on Saturday; House Passes SGR "Fix" (11/20/09)
• RBMA President Cindy Pittmon on Health Care Reform (11/11/09)
• House Clears Path for Vote on Medicare Physician Payment Bill; Obstacles Remain (11/10/09)
• RBMA Releases Summary of 2010 Medicare Fee Schedule Final Rule (11/05/09)
• CMS Releases 2010 Medicare Fee Schedule File Rule (10/30/09)
• RBMA Joint Letter Seeks Delay in CMS Date of Service/Place of Service Transmittal (10/30/09)
• House Democrats Unveil Affordable Health Care for America Act (10/29/09)
• SGR Vote and Aftermath/Timing of Healthcare Reform (10/23/09)
• Senate to Consider S. 1776, the Medicare Physician Fairness Act of 2009 (10/19/09)
• Senate Finance Committee Vote on Health Care Bill (10/15/09)
• Senate Finance Committee Finishes Mark-up (10/05/09)
• Update on Healthcare Reform Debate in the Senate (09/25/09)
• Call Your Senators – No More Cuts to Imaging (09/14/09)
• RBMA to CMS – Opposes Hike in Equipment Utilization Rate, New Practice Expense Information, and Lack of Malpractice Payments to Imaging Centers (09/08/09)
• Contact Congress – Oppose Utilization Assumption Rate Increase (08/24/09)
• ACR and RBMA Conduct Medicare Impact Survey (08/17/09)
• Healthcare Reform Update (08/11/09)
• Call to Action – August Congressional Recess (07/27/09)
• Overview of Provisions of Interest in House Tri-Committee Health Care Reform Legislation (07/15/09)
• America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (07/14/09)
• Update on Health Care Reform Legislation in Congress (07/13/09)
• CMS Proposes Changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2010 (07/02/09)
• Health Care Reform Status Update and Timing (06/25/09)
• U.S. House of Representatives Tri-Committee Issues Health Care Reform Draft (06/22/09)
• Call to Action: Senate Finance Committee Poised to Recommend Payment Cuts to Imaging (06/17/09)
• FTC Will Grant Three-Month Delay of Enforcement of 'Red Flags' Rule Requiring Creditors and Financial Institutions to Adopt Identity Theft Prevention Programs (05/04/09)
• CMS Expands Medicare Coverage of PET for Cancer Diagnosis (04/14/09)
• Call Your Representative to Support Medicare Coverage of CT Colonography (03/12/09)