While the Affordable Care Act included some administrative simplification requirements, it also created several new regulatory burdens for the health care industry. House Republicans have tracked the amount of annual burden hours that will be spent by the entire health care industry that they project will come from the health system reform law. The time toll of four such regulations:
Issue
|
Rule date
|
Annual burden hours
|
Transparency reports and reporting physician ownership or investment interests
|
December 2011
|
3,533,227
|
Reporting and returning overpayments
|
February 2012
|
1,562,500
|
Home health physician face-to-face encounter
|
December 2010
|
248,584
|
Medicare enrollment for ordering/referring health professionals
|
May 2011
|
46,000
|
Source: “Obamacare Burden Tracker,” House Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce Committees (link)
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