• CMS-1403-FC - Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2009; E-Prescribing Exemption for Computer-Generated Facsimile Transmissions; and Payment for Certain Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS). Rule displayed at the Federal Register on October 30, 2008.
• CMS-1421-N - Medicare Program; Plan to Transition to a Medicare Value-Based Purchasing Program for Physician and Other Professional Services: Listening Session, December 9, 2008. Notice published at the Federal Register on October 24, 2008.
• Availability of an Interim Study of Alternative Payment Localities under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule - The report entitled: "Review of Alternative GPCI Payment Locality Structures", which was produced by Acumen, LLC under contract to CMS, may currently be found at the following link: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/PhysicianFeeSched/downloads/ReviewOfAltGPCIs.pdf .We encourage interested parties to submit comments on the options presented in the report as well as suggestions for other options. Electronic comments on the interim report may be submitted to MPFS@cms.hhs.gov until November 3, 2008. (Note: Address for sending comments has been corrected, and comment period extended).
• MLN Matters SE Article: Medicare Part B Drug Competitive Acquisition Program (CAP) Postponed for 2009 [PDF, 97KB] (posted September 29, 2008) 
• 2009 Part B Drug CAP Announcement  (posted September 10, 2008) 

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