from CNS News:

Nation’s Medical Practices, Health Insurers Must Use New Medical Codes, Which Bring Added Expense
(CNSNews.com) – U.S. health care providers and health plans have two years left to adopt a new system of medical coding — the shorthand used to list what’s wrong with a patient and how much that patient should be charged. This will be the first major overhaul of the medical coding system in 30 years, and it is separate from the government’s push to have health care providers switch from paper records to electronic health records.

FCC Commissioners: FCC Lacks Authority to Regulate the Internet
(CNSNews.com) – Two of the five FCC commissioners, both Republicans, said the FCC lacks the legal authority to regulate the Internet, and they predicted that recent regulations issued in December will be struck down in federal court. “No, I don’t think we have authority to regulate the Internet,” Commissioner Meredith Attwell-Baker said at a Washington telecom conference Friday. “I think that that’s a question for Congress.

Cancellation of Bush Trip to Switzerland Deprives Anti-Torture Activists of a Chance to Arrest Him
CNSNews.com) – Advocacy groups that want to see former President George W. Bush go to trial for allegedly endorsing the torture of terror suspects saw an opportunity slip away, after a Jewish organization canceled an invitation for Bush to visit Geneva this week. Although organizers attributed the decision to concerns about protests getting out of hand, activist groups had earlier called on Swiss authorities to arrest the former president if he visited the country.