Practice Management News

As CMS continues to transition from a fee-for-service to a value-based delivery and payment model, providing the same quality of care to all patients has been a challenge. Physicians may feel incentivized by hospitals to not provide care for patients with complex medical needs and demographic challenges to reduce the cost of the episode of care and the risk of penalties for readmissions.

Tom Price, MD, today offered his resignation as HHS secretary, according to a statement from the White House.

The American College of Gastroenterology has issued a letter urging CMS to waive reporting requirements under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) and Quality Payment Program (QPP) for physicians practicing in areas affected by the recent hurricanes.

While women are still underrepresented in procedurally-based subspecialties such as gastroenterology and hepatology, their numbers are slowly increasing and more women are entering key leadership roles.

With another attempt at repealing the Affordable Care Act on hold, leaders of the AAFP, American College of Physicians and other medical groups are pleading with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to work together on health care reform.

Foreign medical graduates play a substantial role in clinical and biomedical research efforts; thus, Trump-era immigration policies that deny individuals from certain foreign countries threaten such efforts, according to findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the American Gastroenterological Association and the American College of Gastroenterology have issued comments and recommendations to CMS on the 2018 proposed rules for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System, which are expected to be finalized in early November.

At a time when the state of health care is in flux, it is critical that physicians engage in the national debate by telling their stories and those of their patients to help create change, according to Andrew W. Gurman, MD, immediate past president of the AMA.

The latest Republican legislation attempting to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act drafted by Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy, MD, (R-La.), and thus deemed the Graham-Cassidy proposal, has gained growing disapproval from several health care organizations, including the AMA and the American College of Physicians.

The American Gastroenterological Association announced its concern that the proposed Cassidy-Graham bill to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act would roll back Medicaid expansion and result in dramatic changes to the way federal health care funds are distributed to states.