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.
Allergy vs. AMA COVID-19 survey results
The American Medical Association (AMA) conducted a nationwide online survey (during July and August) of 3,500 physicians to better understand the impact of the…
Key government loans and relief are still available
The Advocacy Council wants to remind you that the federal government has established several loan programs to offset the financial impact of COVID-19 – some ar…
Federal Response Updates
Since the beginning of the Public Health Emergency (PHE), the College Advocacy Council recognized the need to assimilate and update information coming from the…
Physicians get loan extension
As a result of the Continuing Appropriations Act for 2021 enacted on October 1, 2020, physicians who received advance or accelerated payments (AAP) from Medica…
Telemedicine use: Where are allergists now?
The College’s two recent COVID-19 member surveys indicate telemedicine use initially soared among allergists during the first months of COVID-19, and then drop…
Proposed QPP and MIPS changes for 2021
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing a number of changes to the Quality Payment Program (QPP) and the Merit-based Incentive Paymen…
Need 2020 MIPS flexibility?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced physicians have the option to opt-out completely or partially from the 2020 Merit-based Incentiv…
Reading between the lines
Legislative bills frequently contain measures addressing many issues and often unrelated topics are buried in the bills’ language. Recent attempts to dev…
Advocacy at work
Earlier this month, the Advocacy Council and College sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell requesting their assistance to c…
After COVID-19, will you continue to provide telehealth services?
Despite widespread discussion and promotion by commercial telemedicine companies for the use of telehealth, very few practicing physicians, including allergist…
