The specialty’s leading advocate, the Advocacy Council, is committed to bringing you news and insights on billing, coding and policy reform that directly affect your practice. Advocacy Insider, a recurring column in College Insider, keeps you in the loop.
The AC and the AMA – Part II
The Advocacy Council and College often work quietly behind the scenes with the American Medical Association (AMA). This collaboration goes back many year…
AMA raves about College’s asthma Alternative Payment Model
The College recently submitted a proposal for an asthma Alternative Payment Model (APM) to the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PT…
Strike Force advocates in Washington
The 2019 Advocacy Council Strike Force trip to Washington, DC last week was, once again, a great success. We spent two days meeting with congressional leaders …
The College and the AMA – a successful partnership
We continue our series on how the AMA effectively works with the College to support allergists with a review of the recent success we’ve had dealing with…
Final 2018 MIPS rule released
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the final Quality Payment Program (QPP) policies for the Merit Incentive Payment System …
Advocacy Council participates in AMA workshop on alternative payment models
On March 20, the Advocacy Council participated in the AMA-sponsored Workshop on Alternative Payment Models (APM).The Advocacy Council’s APM sub-committee…
Asthma payment model in the spotlight at the National MACRA/MIPS/APM Summit
The National MACRA MIPS/APM Summit was recently held in Washington, D.C. – and our own Stephen Imbeau, MD, FACAAI, was a speaker. The summit is the leadi…
Taking Alternative Payment Models one step at a time
There’s been a lot of talk about quality payment programs – we’ve been publishing articles on it, and it’s been everywhere you look. We…
