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Pecos County Memorial Hospital Expanding Dialysis Center - NewsWest9.com

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FORT STOCKTON - Imagine having to drive almost four hours just to get dialysis treatment. For many West Texans, it's a reality, but Pecos County Memorial Hospital in Fort Stockton is going to change all that. The dialysis center at

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CMS website page regarding updates to reimbursement for 2012.

CMS: The proposed rule proposes to change the performance measures for PY 2013 by retiring the hemoglobin level less than 10g/dL measure from the measure set, and equally weighting the two remaining measures (hemoglobin levels greater than 12g/dL and hemodialysis adequacy, as measured by Urea Reduction Ratio (URR) levels of at least 65).

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CMS proposes eliminating the minimum 10 g/dL Hgb target for ESAs.

Reuters: The U.S. government health plan said last month that it had no plans to change its reimbursement terms for anemia drugs used to treat kidney patients. But in a statement on its website on Friday, the agency proposed retiring a requirement that patients' hemoglobin, or red blood cell, levels be kept above 10 milligrams per deciliter.

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Off-topic: Brain-wave computer interface coupled with Second Life gives new opportunities to ALS patients.

New Scientist: TWO friends meet in a bar in the online environment Second Life to chat about their latest tweets and favourite TV shows. Nothing unusual in that - except that both of them have Lou Gehrig's disease, otherwise known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and it has left them so severely paralysed that they can only move their eyes.

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CMS looking at physician reimbursement and at auditing high-value codes.

Nephronline: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule on Friday that would update payment policies and rates for physicians and nonphysician practitioners for services paid under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) in 2012..................In the 2012 proposed rule, CMS says it is significantly expanding the potentially misvalued code initiative, an effort to ensure Medicare is paying accurately for physician services and more closely managing the payment system.

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