• 1 HIPAA: Compliance Changes Do Not Equal Relaxed Standards

• 2 PHARMACEUTICALS: E-Benefit Coordinaton To Coincide With New Rx Plan

• 3 PHYSICIANS: PPAC Calls For Physicians To Share In Care Rewards

• 4 LONG-TERM CARE: House Subcommittee Checking Into Asset Transfers

• 5 MEDICAID: Reports-Benes Blighted By Increasing Costs

• 6 HOSPITALS: Overcrowded EDs Could Become All Too Common

• 7 HOSPITALS: Specialty Hospitals Hearings See AMA, MedPAC Clash

• 8 HOSPITALS: April OPPS Offers An Array Of Coding, Policy Changes

• 9 PHYSICIANS: Bills Would Replace Cut With 2.7-Percent Boost

• 10 ENFORCEMENT WATCH: OIG Eyes Suspicious Therapy Claims

• 11 LABS: Know Diagnostic From Screening For Testing Claims

• 12 BILL WATCH