…information and resources from the AMA. https://bit.ly/2TiBjSb. https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/cpt/10-tips-prepare-your-practice-em-office-visit-changes https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/cpt/em-prep-your-house-practice-checklist-2021-transition https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/cpt/implementing-cpt-evaluation-and-management-em-revisions In addition, CMS has…

…that identifies approaches to modifying Medicare fee-for-service payments to more closely reflect prices paid in MA and commercial insurance markets; Adjusting network adequacy requirements, including potentially greater use of…

House of Representatives Subcommittee Holds Hearings on Medicare Payment Policies On October 19, 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives, despite not have a Speaker of the House, held a…

Calls for Government Watchdog to Investigate Hospitals’ Compliance With Price Transparency Rules and CMS’ Performance as Enforcer The Federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule aims to improve the affordability of…

…over two years for grants tot states to address opioid abuse prevention and treatment such as improving prescription drug monitoring programs Reforms the mental health system by improving patient…

…F. Heary, MD heary@umdnj.edu Immediate Past-President Steve Reich, MD spinedad@yahoo.com Mitchell Reiter, MD mreiter@njss.net Roy Vingan, MD endoftheinnocence@hotmail.com James Dwyer, MD jnd5@earthlink.net Dante Implicito, MD dantemd@optonline.net Jack Knightly, MD…

ISASS was a signatory to a letter to the White House in response to the White House Executive Order issued on Oct. 3. President Trump issued an Executive Order…

…ISASS Signs On to Letter in Support of S. 2978 Open Payments Program – 2015 Financial Data Posted FDA Issues Draft Guidance on the Use of Real-World Evidence for…

…LLC, have been conducting field testing for 13 cost measures before consideration of their potential use in the cost-performance category of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) of the…

…1 in Austin, TX.   Recap of the AMA House of Delegates Annual Meeting The AMA House of Delegates annual meeting was held in Chicago on June 11-15. After…

…not restrict IDR to claims above a certain threshold amount, nor does it establish a payment benchmark based on in-network payment amounts. Price and network transparency provisions and protections…

…with two other House committees before advancing to the House floor for a full vote by the House of Representatives. Additional amendments were adopted by the Energy and Commerce…