Health Legislation
Executive Summary
Legislation (HR 6111) that applies the R&D tax credit retroactively for 2006 and extends it through 2007 was signed into law by President George Bush Dec. 20. New law also directs HHS to develop quality of care measures, including for medication errors, for hospital outpatient services (1"The Pink Sheet" Dec. 18, 2006, p. 22). In Medicare, the law requires physicians to submit "quality indicators," specifically hemoglobin or hematocrit levels, when providing anemia treatments to cancer patients, starting Jan. 1, 2008...