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The College’s Advocacy Council encourages members to keep the council abreast of coverage and coding issues they experience with CMS and commercial payers. Whe…
HHS announces new relief funding for physicians
New Relief FundingLast Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it will make $25.5 billion in COVID-19 relief funding available to p…
CMS proposes to rescind ‘most favored nation’ pricing rule
On August 10th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule that would rescind a previously finalized regulation that implem…
More proposed changes to the QPP
Last July the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule recommending a number of change…
How will the proposed MIPS changes affect you?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule recommending a number of changes to the Q…
FDA Issues Memorandum of Understanding on compounded drugs
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) related to the interstate distribution of compounded drugs. If a sta…
College advocates for asthma APM
Last July, the College joined American Medical Association (AMA) President-elect Jack Resneck, Jr., MD, and a few other specialty society physician leaders in …
Does OSHA’s emergency temporary standard for COVID-19 apply to your practice?
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently established a new emergency temporary standard (ETS) that is currently in effect to protect h…
Supporting virtual patient care
During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), Congress swiftly enacted telehealth service waivers to allow physicians to care for their patients virtually…
Correction: When to count tests for E/M coding based on MDM
There has been a great deal of confusion regarding how to count tests/procedures for purposes of coding office visits based on medical decision making (MDM), a…