• 1 PHARMACEUTICALS: Medicare Slashes Drugs By Up To 60 Percent

• 2 PHYSICIANS: Show Septis, Then Bill For Septic Shock

• 3 MEDICARE: CMS Studying Increase In Physician Spending On Part B Premiums

• 4 COVERAGE: LOCM Get New Code Set

• 5 HOME HEALTH: CPO Change Provides Good Marketing Ammo

• 6 MEDICARE: Rising Costs Will Eventually Price Beneficiaries Out

• 7 MEDICAID: What's Up For Medicaid When Congress Returns?

• 8 COVERAGE: Big Change Coming In Medicare Payments

• 9 COMPLIANCE: CMS Issues Its First Draft Of NCD

• 10 ENFORCEMENT WATCH: DOJ Says WV Hospitals Too Close For Comfort

• 11 MEDICARE MODERNIZATION ACT: SPAPs Can Still Coordinate Aid With Medicare Benefit

• 12 PHYSICIANS: CoP Out Or Compassion? CMS Wants To Rein In Regs