22 April 2010 

• Gov. McDonnell taps MSV members to lead key state agencies
• MSV member wins 2010 Governor’s Volunteerism and Community Service Award
• Guidance on advance directive law changes 
• Medicare Advantage fraud training requirement lifted 
• CMS adds additional approved issues for RAC review
• AMA offers physicians help claiming damages from UnitedHealth settlement (ama-assn.org)
• MSV cosponsors annual VIPC&S conference—Register today!
• Volunteer opportunity with Remote Area Medical/Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity

• States’ Medicaid funds tapped for federal health overhaul (kaiserhealthnews.org)
• Free webinar on electronic health records (EHR) stimulus and health care reform
• Doctors: 5 gripes about the health law (cnn.com)

• Doctors pursue House, Senate seats (usatoday.com)
• Nixon, Lohr replacements to be elected June 15 (Blog -timesdispatch.com)
• President Obama nominates Dr. Donald Berwick for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (whitehouse.gov)
• House rejects at-risk youth cuts, others by gov (wtop.com)
• UnitedHealth to unveil managed care strategies for states (reuters.com)  

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