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Advocacy Action Center: ACT NOW: Urge Congress to Pass Legislation to Increase Medical Rehabilitation Research at NIH
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CMS Announces "Pick Your Pace" Plan for 2017 Quality Payment Program
AAPM&R President, Greg Worsowicz, MD Testifies at Hearing on Incentivizing Quality Outcomes in Medicare Part A
FDA Announces Real Time SLC Data
Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month
Pain Awareness Month
Opioid Pain or Cough Medicines Combined With Benzodiazepines: Drug Safety Communication - FDA Requiring Boxed Warning About Serious Risks and Death
Avoid a Penalty! Time is Running Out for 2016 Reporting
Office of the Surgeon General Distributes Opioid Letter
Sponsored: From the Rusk Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine Podcast: Speech and Swallowing for the Medically-Complex Pediatric Patient
Diana W. Bianchi, M.D. Selected as Director of NICHD
Advocacy Action Center: Stop Implementation of the Problematic Lower Limb Prostheses LCD
NQF Announces the Measure Incubator™ Innovation Challenge
An Update on the Jimmo v Sebelius Lawsuit
UPDATED: CMS Solicits Comments on IMPACT Act Standardized Assessment-Based Data Items
Sponsored: From the Rusk Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine Podcast: Value-Based Medicine
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Issues Draft Guidance Documents on Compounding
Advocacy Action Center: In less than 3 minutes, you can help Save Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) - Deadline 8/13
CMS Virtual Office Hour on PQRS: August 16
Sponsored: From the Rusk Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine Podcast: Encephalopathy and Delirium in Medically-Complex Cardiopulmonary Patients