Practice Management News

Today, the House of Representatives narrowly approved the American Health Care Act. Soon after, the ACP, AMA and the American Academy of Family Physicians released statements urging the Senate to reject the bill and craft bipartisan solutions to improve health care coverage and access for all Americans.

Allison Shuren, MSN, JD, of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, offers a legal perspective on the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives today with 217 votes. The bill aims to replace the Affordable Health Care Act.

Certain physicians and teaching hospitals have until May 15 to review, and if appropriate, dispute, information submitted about them through the Open Payment Program before it goes public, according to CMS.

The U.S. House of Representatives today narrowly approved legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care system, voting by a slim margin to replace the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, with a refurbished version of a Republican-penned bill that was pulled just weeks ago because of a lack of support.

High performance on components of patient-centered medical homes, including continuity, access, care coordination and communication, enhance clinical quality and, if sustained, can lead to substantial health benefits to the population over time, according to research published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

In a letter to the House of Representatives, ACP argued that the new provisions intended to gain support among House Republicans for the American Health Care Act that increase funding to states for “high risk” pools by $8 billion over 5 years would not make coverage more affordable for patients with pre-existing conditions. In a separate statement, AMA noted that these amendments would still result in millions of Americans losing health insurance coverage.

The number of prescriptions filled by adults using Medicaid increased by nearly 20% in the first 18 months of the Affordable Care Act’s implementation, according to findings recently presented at the Society of General Internal Medicine Meeting.

Policies limiting visits from pharmaceutical sales representatives, or detailing, led to modest but significant reductions in prescribing behavior, according to research recently published in JAMA.

Verily Life Sciences LLC announced the launch of a 4-year study in partnership with Duke University School of Medicine and Stanford Medicine to gain a better understanding of the transition of an individual being healthy to a becoming ill.

The AMA recently announced a partnership with the Regenstrief Institute that it says will ensure more medical students and medical trainees gain real-world experience using electronic health records during their training.