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From international law firm Arnold & Porter LLP comes a timely column that provides views on current regulatory and legislative topics that weigh on the minds of today’s physicians and health care executives.For any physician practice (or any other provider, for that matter) that has been a target of the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program, proposed legislation introduced by Congressman Sam Graves, R-Mo., offers some hope, or at least a modicum of relief. RACs operate under a contract with the Medicare program to identify potential overpayments as well as underpayments. (Read more...)

Ocular Therapeutix reported a net loss of approximately $7.6 million, or $0.35 per share, in the first quarter 2015 compared with a loss of $7 million, or $2.45 per share, in the first quarter of the previous year, according to a press release.Total re…

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KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — At the Kiawah Eye 2015 meeting, Amanda Limbaugh, MD, discusses a study looking at cataract surgery complication rates in surgeries performed by residents at one Veterans Administration facility between 2010 and 2013. The study found complication rates decreased over time, most likely due to the use of a new microscope during surgery.

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